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People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

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I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

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I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

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Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn't work for everybody. It's the lifestyle, it's the stamina, it's the love, it's the dedication, it's the commitment, it's all those words.

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I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

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I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

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The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

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We're dancing from here, from inside, not from outside. You could look at anybody throwing their leg and kick their leg up and a million pirouettes and do all kinds of tricks and stuff like that. But that's not what dance is really about.

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I could say now at 66, yeah, I was a fabulous dancer. I was really terrific, you know. But I was always present. I was present. I was supposed to be where I was supposed to be at the time I was supposed to be.

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I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: May 10th, 1943

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