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I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil.

— Leila Janah

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.

— Jane Hamilton

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.

— Gal Gadot

Dancing is my passion. I started as a dancer.

— Nigel Lythgoe

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

— Tinashe

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

— Oksana Baiul

I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.

— Marques Houston

✗Opposing Perspectives

Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me. I would love to choreograph and dance around.

— Misty Copeland

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

— Sarah Gadon

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

— Nigel Lythgoe