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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

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Suzanne Farrell
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 16
Ballerina
Ballet Dancer
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Choices
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
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I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.
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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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Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.
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Treat each class as if it were your first.
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So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.
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After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.
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The arts are the hospitals for our souls.
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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 learned to love dance for its own sake.
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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.
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