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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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"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."
"How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light."
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"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."
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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 liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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