"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."

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"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."

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"There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain."

Sacrifice

"I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be."

Thought

"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."

Ballet

"That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing."

Work

"I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do."

Politics

"I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not."

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"When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across."

Life

"But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around."

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"I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read."

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"I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels."

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