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

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

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

Treat each class as if it were your first.

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.

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

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

I was very much of a tomboy.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

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

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

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another.

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

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls ...