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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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"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."
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"I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment."
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"I wanted to be a ballet teacher."
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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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"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City 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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"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
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"The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener."
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"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."
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"I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft."
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"I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen."
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"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."
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"I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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'."
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"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."
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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?'"
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