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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.

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.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.