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The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

~Robert Caro

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You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

~Robert Caro

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We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

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Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

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I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

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Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

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As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

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At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

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Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 30th, 1935

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