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The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.
I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census. Something like ten thousand people lived in one city block.
People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.
Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.
I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.