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" I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read. "
Suzanne Farrell
Liked
Being
Dancer
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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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Dramatic
Chance
Style
" I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition. "
Suzanne Farrell
Form
Loved
Tests
" 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
Living
Doing
Moment
" 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. "
Suzanne Farrell
You
Care
Too Much
" I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not. "
Suzanne Farrell
Inside
Cool
Thought
" 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. "
Suzanne Farrell
Great
Childhood
Think
" 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. "
Suzanne Farrell
Work
Commitment
Happy
" I was very much of a tomboy. "
Suzanne Farrell
Very
Tomboy
Much
" So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do. "
Suzanne Farrell
Something
Desire
Dancing
" 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. "
Suzanne Farrell
Politics
Think
World
" Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child. "
Suzanne Farrell
Spoiled
Child
Brat
" I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing. "
Suzanne Farrell
Emotions
Dancing
Going
" You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. "
Suzanne Farrell
Yourself
Time
Situation
" When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world. "
Suzanne Farrell
Stage
You
World
" I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument. "
Suzanne Farrell
Sit
Still
Discipline
" And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession. "
Suzanne Farrell
Want
Thought
Chosen
" In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. "
Suzanne Farrell
Did
Ballet
Child
" 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. "
Suzanne Farrell
Healthy
Important
Possible
" But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around. "
Suzanne Farrell
Motivation
Love
Music
" Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited. "
Suzanne Farrell
Know
Feel
Moment
" The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music. "
Suzanne Farrell
Me
Look
Steps
" I learned to love dance for its own sake. "
Suzanne Farrell
Learned
Sake
To Love
" 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. "
Suzanne Farrell
Never
Thought
Who
" I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes. "
Suzanne Farrell
Choice
Career
Ability
" When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across. "
Suzanne Farrell
Lights
Black
Life
" I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels. "
Suzanne Farrell
Love
You
Play
" Of course, in the art class, I was the model. "
Suzanne Farrell
Model
Class
Art
" The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for. "
Suzanne Farrell
Situation
Body
Amazing
" As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate. "
Suzanne Farrell
Starts
Something
Music
" 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. "
Suzanne Farrell
Age
Control
Discipline