Suzanne Farrell Quotes

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• You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Team, Player, Ballet

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• I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Humdrum, Stage, Curtains

  Suzanne Farrell, Toni Bentley (1990). “Holding on to the air: an autobiography”, Summit Press

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• The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Art, Soul, Hospitals

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• Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself if you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dance, Being Yourself, Ballet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Discipline, Goal, Dancer

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Thinking, Hands, Ballet Class

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Errors, Giving, Trial And Error

  "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Real, World, Way

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dance, Ballet, Vibrate

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• Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dance, Mean, Ballet

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• Treat each class as if it were your first.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Class, Ballet, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.

  Suzanne Farrell

  People, Ballet, Different

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• Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Ballet, Moments

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• I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dance, Thinking, Ballet

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Eye, Light, Ballet

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Commitment, Opportunity, People

  "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Somewhere Else, Ungrateful, Wish

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview in New York City, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dance, Wall, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.

  Suzanne Farrell

  People, Feelings, Should

  "Ballet Legend Suzanne Farrell Passes on the Balanchine Legacy". Seven Days Interview, www.sevendaysvt.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Children, Dancing, Rebellious

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• Eating a healthy diet is not just about eating a few special foods. There's a bigger picture. You need to practice moderation, eat a variety of foods, and get enough physical activity.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Practice, Healthy, Special

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• I was very much of a tomboy.

  Suzanne Farrell

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Beautiful, Dance, Dancing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dance, Ballet, Serious

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Pain, Sacrifice, Dancing

  "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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