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"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."
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"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."
"I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another."
"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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"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."
"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."
"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."
"Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child."
"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."
"I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels."
"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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