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"I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements."
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"And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession."

"I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way."

"On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life."

"I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels."

"When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across."

"I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do."

"It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else."

"That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing."
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"Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse."

"I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's."

"Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them."

"It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style."

"There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them."

"If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are."

"Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before."

"The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'"
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