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I started in dance classes when I was, like, seven years old. And the arts in general, it kept me not only off the street, I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, so it kept my mind focused. It kept me passionate about something. So I wasn't easily distracted.

— Wendy Raquel Robinson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

— Zendaya

I studied dancing a little bit when I was young.

— Stephanie Zimbalist

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 think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'

— Robin Wright

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

— Oksana Baiul

I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.

— Jacob Artist

I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.

— Jane Hamilton

I was a dancer for about 20 years. It didn't really help me transition into music.

— Andra Day

Dance is a very disciplining career or hobby. I was disciplined at an early age.

— Teri Polo

✗Opposing Perspectives

I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.

— Sutton Foster