Suzanne Farrell quotes

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate. (Suzanne Farrell)
I learned to love dance for its own sake. View quote
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There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for. View quote
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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. View quote
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I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read. View quote
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Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child. View quote
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I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be. View quote
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But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around. (Suzanne Farrell)
I was very much of a tomboy. View quote
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So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do. View quote
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In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. View quote
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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. View quote
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I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer. View quote
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I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing. View quote
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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. View quote
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I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition. View quote
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Of course, in the art class, I was the model. View quote
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I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements. (Suzanne Farrell)
And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession. View quote
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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. View quote
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When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world. View quote
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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. View quote
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