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"The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for."
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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."
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"There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."

"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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