"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."

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"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."

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"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."

Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer

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"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."

Robert Smith, English Musician

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"I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft."

Janice Dickinson, American Model

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"I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition."

Sarah Sutton, British Actress

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"Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned."

George Balanchine, Russian Dancer

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"I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do."

Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer

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"I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment."

Neil Patrick Harris, American Actor

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"The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible."

Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer

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"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."

Maureen O'Hara, Irish Actress

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"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."

Elle Macpherson, Australian Model

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"I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes."

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"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."

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"But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around."

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"Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child."

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"Of course, in the art class, I was the model."

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"You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time."

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"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."

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"So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do."

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"I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer."

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"I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do."

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