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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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"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."

"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."

"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."

"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."

"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."

"I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another."

"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."

"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."

"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
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"Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?'"

"It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada."

"Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different."

"I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently."

"I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.'"

"I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen."

"We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other."

"Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off."

"The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out."

"I knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know."
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