Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrellis an eminent 20th-century ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDancer
Date of Birth16 August 1945
CountryUnited States of America
american-dancer aware life react wonderful
The wonderful thing about life it that there will always be variables. You have to see them and be aware of them to know how to react to them.
I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.
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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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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.
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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.
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Whole grains are just that, the entire grain including the bran, the germ, and the endosperm. Lots of refined carbohydrates are fortified to add back some of the nutrients, but you can't add back all the fiber.
coming dance-and-dancing dancing girl keeps
I still feel like a 15 year-old girl coming to New York. Dancing does that to you. I think it keeps you really young.
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I don't believe you can be an honest performer and a spectator at the same time.
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I was grateful that I had dancing to fall back on. It was my survival tactic. It was my friend. It was always there.
rather strange
So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.
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My feelings started to change when I realized that dancing was getting inside my body, emotionally, as well as physically.
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To have been part of that evening -- and now I am truly honored and privileged. I loved dancing and how fortunate I am to have had a career I loved doing.
body wonderful
It's a wonderful thing to be able to dance, to tell your body what you want it to do.
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When you're choosing nuts, make sure to get them raw and unsalted.