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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I liked math. Counting was easy for me, which was good, because a lot of the ballets have involved difficult counts.
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In general, nuts are good, ... But walnuts are great because they have high levels of omega-3 fatty acids. Other nuts don't.
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If I meet people who don't like fish, I don't think it's a good idea to force them to eat it,
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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 tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.
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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 loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
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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 could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
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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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There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.
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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.
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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.
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Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.