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Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) is an American ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

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I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

Love, Preparation, Sister, Sophisticated, Thinking, Two

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

Cool, Dancer, Thought, Unemotional

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

Dresses, Heels, High Heels, Mother, Play

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

Art, Arts, Hospitals, Soul, Souls

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

Ballet, Care, Conformity, Everyone, Like, Too Much

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.

Interesting, Latin, People, Tales, Thought

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.

Commitment, Happy, Opportunity, People, Stage

Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.

Breed, Dance, Dancers, Dancing, People, Wall

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.

Lived, Somewhere Else, Ungrateful, Wish, Wishing

I was very much of a tomboy.

Tomboy

Eating a healthy diet is not just about eating a few special foods. There's a bigger picture. You need to practice moderation, eat a variety of foods, and get enough physical activity.

Bigger, Foods, Healthy, Practice, Special, Variety

Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself If you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.

Ballet, Being Yourself, Dance, Fifth, Higher, Way

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

Dancer, Liked, Read, Time

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.

Away, Feelings, Good, People, Send, Should

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

Art, Class, Course, Model, Models

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.

Class, Dancing, Emotions, Work Out

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.

Ballet, Dance, Louder, Mean, Silent, Students

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

Ballet, Dance, Insecure, Know, Steps, Though

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

Body, Can Do, Situation, Things

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.

Ballet, Dance, Love, Sake, Thinking, Wanting

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