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It brought out in me the person whom I had the potential to become. I think that's why I loved it for its own sake, not to be a ballerina. |
It's a wonderful thing to be able to dance, to tell your body what you want it to do. |
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. |
My feelings started to change when I realized that dancing was getting inside my body, emotionally, as well as physically. |
My mother was very interested in giving her daughters the advantage of music and dance, if we had an interest in it. My father was not. |
Of course, in the art class, I was the model. |
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. |
Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child. |
Research showed that the average American was only eating about one serving a day of whole grains. |
School was fun. |
So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do. |
So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen. |
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. |
The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for. |