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"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."
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"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."
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"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."
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"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
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"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."
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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."
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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."
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"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
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"I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted."
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"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."
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"I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset."
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"The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life."
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"I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw."
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"Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started."
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"I don't know how people can live without a therapist."
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"You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold."
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"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."
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"There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance."
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"People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all."
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"No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you."
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