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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 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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"It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else."
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"There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain."
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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."
Love
"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
"I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer."
Life
"You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time."
Time
"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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"I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read."
Time
"The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for."
Body
"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
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