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. |
I liked math. Counting was easy for me, which was good, because a lot of the ballets have involved difficult counts. |
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. |
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition. |
I still feel like a 15 year-old girl coming to New York. Dancing does that to you. I think it keeps you really young. |
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. |
I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels. |
I was grateful that I had dancing to fall back on. It was my survival tactic. It was my friend. It was always there. |
I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance. |
I was very much of a tomboy. |
I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not. |
If I meet people who don't like fish, I don't think it's a good idea to force them to eat it, |
If you use butter or margarine now, just switch over to one of these sterol-fortified spreads. |
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. |