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Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.
Suzanne Farrell
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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.
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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.
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I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
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I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.
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So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.
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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.
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I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.
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I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
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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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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.
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And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.
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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 could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
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As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.
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