I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance - George Balanchine

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I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

George Balanchine

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance

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I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

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In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. . . we can't dance synonyms.

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I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do.

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Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

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I am a cloud - in trousers.

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