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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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"I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why."
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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 went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition."
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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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"Classical ballet will never die."
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"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."
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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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"Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned."
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"I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition."
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