American - Dancer | August 16, 1945 -
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.
Suzanne Farrell
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.
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I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
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As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.
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I was very much of a tomboy.
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So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.
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In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
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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.
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The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.
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