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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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"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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"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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"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."
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"I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater."
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"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
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"And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones."
Music
"I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it."
Home
"I love being physical and acting at the same time."
Love
"To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life."
Life
"I think that it's not as crazily different, my job, from anyone else's, as people let themselves believe. I think people get wrapped up in their own idea of what it is, but it's really not that."
People
"Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?"
Beauty
"I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another."
Ballet
"I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be."
Marriage
"I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy."
Work
"Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it."
Business
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