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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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"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


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