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"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."
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"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
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"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."
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"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."
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"Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet."
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"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."
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"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
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"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
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"I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another."
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"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."
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"It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me."
Film
"I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London."
Hollywood
"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years."
Years
"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."
Actor
"I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on."
Progress
"The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing."
Love
"There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer."
Time
"Cinema will always have an important role to play in society."
Society
"I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people."
Money
"It's very difficult to marry into another civilization."
Civilization
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