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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 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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"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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"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
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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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"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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"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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"Of course, in the art class, I was the model."
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"And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession."
Thought
"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
"On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life."
Life
"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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"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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"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."
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"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."
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