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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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"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
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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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"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."
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"Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet."
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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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"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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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 of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
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"I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another."
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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 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."
Time
"I couldn't sing to save myself. Greg went to John after the audition and said, 'She's cute, but she can't sing very well' and he said, 'I know. We'll teach her. I just want her on the show'."
Cute
"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."
Time
"They had asked for me because they wanted a younger girl, but Mum asked if she could bring Kylie along because she didn't want there to be any jealously."
Want
"I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience."
Experience
"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."
Beginning
"Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold."
Love
"I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen."
Thought
"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."
Time
"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.'"
Living
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