"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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"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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"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."

Rita Rudner, American Comedian

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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."

Dannii Minogue, Australian Musician

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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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"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 wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."

Elle Macpherson, Australian Model

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"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."

Angelina Jolie, American Actress

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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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"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."

Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer

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"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."

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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."

Ballet

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

Love

"I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing."

Work

"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 learned to love dance for its own sake."

Love

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

Reality

"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."

Ballet

"Of course, in the art class, I was the model."

Art

"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

"Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child."

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