You Don't Measure Life By Receiving Awards.

I Do Not Try To Dance Better Than Anyone Else. I Only Try To Dance Better Than Myself.

Divinity Of Art, It's Such A Mystery. How To Convince People That No Matter How Much Money You Can Spend On Education And Art Education Especially, That It Implants, It Directs A Young Person For The Rest Of Their Lives, And Always In The Most Humane And Positive And Dignified Manner.

I Found That Dance, Music, And Literature Is How I Made Sense Of The World... It Pushed Me To Think Of Things Bigger Than Lifes Daily Routines... To Think Beyond What Is Immediate Or Convenient.

We Lived, Until I Was 12 Or So, In Communal Apartment With Five Different Families And The Same Kitchen, In Two Little - My Brother And Me And My Parents. It Was Hell, But It Was A Common Thing. My Father Was Not General Or Admiral, But He Was Colonel. He Was Teaching In Military Academy Military Topography.

Nobody Is Born A Dancer.