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Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then... it's gone.

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.

Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.

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

To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think.

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