All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

On an ideal Saturday night, I'll go to the New York City Ballet, where my friends play percussion.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.

I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had been New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

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.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

There is something about Dior that reminds me of New York City Ballet. They both have a classic, glamorous basis but are trying to evolve the arts in new and innovative ways.

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.

In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about.

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