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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That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get...

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get...

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great...

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great...

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are...

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are...

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But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move...

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It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are...

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

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When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes...

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

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

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

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When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in...

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The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy,...

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