Quotes by Suzanne Farrell - Page 1

I was very much of a tomboy.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
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The arts are the hospitals for our souls.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Art
Hospitals
Soul
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I learned to love dance for its own sake.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Dance
Dance Love
Sake
To Love
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Treat each class as if it were your first.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Ballet
Class
Firsts
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Of course, in the art class, I was the model.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Art
Class
Models
Model
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So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Dancing
Desire
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As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Dance
Ballet
Vibrate
Hear Music
Soon
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Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Feelings
People
Should
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I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Dancer
Unemotional
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I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Hearing
Movement
Results
Tap
Movements
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After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Dance
Ballet
Beautiful
Dancing
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I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Class
Dancing
Work Out
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You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Ballet
Player
Team
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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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In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Ballet
Children
Hiking
Midwest
Companies
Exist
In Fact
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The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Amazing
Amazing Things
Body
Can Do
Situation
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I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Competing
Competition
Healthy
Tests
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I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Dance
Ballet
Normal
Serious
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Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Ballet
Moments
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I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Discipline
Instrument
Note
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There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Dancing
Pain
Sacrifice
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Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Brat
Children
Dancing
Rebellious
Spoiled
Spoiled Brat
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When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Real
Real World
Way
World
Reality World Way
The Real World
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I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Careers
Choices
Constant
Doubt
Doubts
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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.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Chosen
Dancing
Profession
Want
Would Be
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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.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Motivational
Facts
Moving
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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.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Heels
High Heels
Love Your Mother
Mother
Play
Dress-Up
To Love
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I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Dance
Ballet
Important
Thinking
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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.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Characterization
Dramatic
Extreme
Ballets
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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.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Ballet
Capable
Dancing
Healthy
Particular
Physically
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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 / Ballerina
Drawing
Steps
Second Nature
Struggling
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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 / Ballerina
Sister
Chic
Preparation
Sophisticated
Thinking
Two
Love Great Way
Sisters
Pretend
Dressed
Ladies
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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.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Childhood
Dancer
Thinking
Life Great Childhood
Cincinnati
Wonderful Childhood
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I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.
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Dancer
Discipline
Goal
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Eating a healthy diet is not just about eating a few special foods. There's a bigger picture. You need to practice moderation, eat a variety of foods, and get enough physical activity.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Healthy
Practice
Special
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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 / Ballerina
Ballet
Ballet Class
Discipline
Hands
Thinking
Life Age Your
Classes
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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 / Ballerina
Somewhere Else
Ungrateful
Wish
Somewhere
Something Else
Wishing
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I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Curtains
Humdrum
Stage
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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.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Opportunity
Famous
Commitment
People
Willingness
Chances
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When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Ballet
Different
People
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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.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Ballet
Care
Conformity
Too Much
Disciplined
Everyone Else
Looked
Required
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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 / Ballerina
Dance
Ballet
Insecure
Steps
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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 / Ballerina
Credit
Errors
Giving
Trial And Error
Error
Trial
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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.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Goes On
Thinking
World
Studio
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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 / Ballerina
Ballet
Eye
Faces
Light
Void
Life Eyes Your
Lights
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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.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Interesting
Latin
People
Tales
Translate
People Never Who
Languages
Interesting People
Required
Roman
Seemed
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Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Dance
Dancing
People
Wall
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Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself if you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Dance
Ballet
Being Yourself
Energy
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Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.
Suzanne Farrell / Ballerina
Dance
Ballet
Important
Mean
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