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The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.

If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

Kids are always told that they can be anything that they want. But what if you want to be a ballerina, and you're terrible at ballet? Or what if you're gifted at ballet, but you don't like doing it?

To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.