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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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"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
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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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"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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"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."
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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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"Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet."
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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
"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."
Ballet
"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
"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."
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."
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
"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."
Reality
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