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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There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.
I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.
The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.
The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music.
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.
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.
As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
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.
I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.
But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.
I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.
I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.
I learned to love dance for its own sake.
I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.
I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.
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