American - Dancer | August 16, 1945 -
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.
Suzanne Farrell
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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.
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I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
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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.
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I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
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I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.
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Of course, in the art class, I was the model.
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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.
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I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.
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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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And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.
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I learned to love dance for its own sake.
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