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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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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
"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."
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."
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"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."
"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."
"But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around."
"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."
"I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes."
"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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