Suzanne Farrell Quotes

• 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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• When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

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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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• There is pain and sacrifice in everyone’s world. That’s why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

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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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• The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

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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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• So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

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• Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

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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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• Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

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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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• In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

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• I’m thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I’m not.

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• I was very much of a tomboy.

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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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• I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn’t have a lot of time to read.

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• I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.

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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.

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Suzanne Farrell (30)

Birth:	16th August, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Dancer, Founder

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