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
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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.
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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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It brought out in me the person whom I had the potential to become. I think that's why I loved it for its own sake, not to be a ballerina.
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My mother was very interested in giving her daughters the advantage of music and dance, if we had an interest in it. My father was not.
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And 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.
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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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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'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
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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.
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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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.
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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.