Suzanne Farrell quotes Born: 08/16/1945 Country: usa

• “I liked math. Counting was easy for me, which was good, because a lot of the ballets have involved difficult counts.” (Suzanne Farrell)
• “I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.” (Suzanne Farrell) [love/think]
• “I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.” (Suzanne Farrell) [think/life/politics]
• “But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.” (Suzanne Farrell) [motivation/music/love]
• “I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.” (Suzanne Farrell)
• “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) [stage/eyes/life]
• “I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.” (Suzanne Farrell)
• “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) [think/take/age/discipline]
• “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) [moment/moment]
• “There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.” (Suzanne Farrell) [pain/dancing]
• “I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.” (Suzanne Farrell) [class]
• “I was grateful that I had dancing to fall back on. It was my survival tactic. It was my friend. It was always there.” (Suzanne Farrell) [dancing/tactic]
• “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) [take/stage/people/more]
• “I was very much of a tomboy.” (Suzanne Farrell)
• “And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.” (Suzanne Farrell) [dancing]
• “And 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) [think/love]
• “To have been part of that evening -- and now I am truly honored and privileged. I loved dancing and how fortunate I am to have had a career I loved doing.” (Suzanne Farrell) [evening/dancing/career]
• “If I meet people who don't like fish, I don't think it's a good idea to force them to eat it,” (Suzanne Farrell) [people/think]
• “In general, nuts are good, ... But walnuts are great because they have high levels of omega-3 fatty acids. Other nuts don't.” (Suzanne Farrell) [high]
• “Although nuts have a lot of benefits, they're also high in calories that can add up fast.” (Suzanne Farrell) [benefits/high]
• “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)
• “I just heard music and wanted to dance, wanted to be in a company, and wanted to make it my life.” (Suzanne Farrell) [music/company]
• “When you're choosing nuts, make sure to get them raw and unsalted.” (Suzanne Farrell)
• “If you use butter or margarine now, just switch over to one of these sterol-fortified spreads.” (Suzanne Farrell)
• “Research showed that the average American was only eating about one serving a day of whole grains.” (Suzanne Farrell) [day]
• “Whole grains are just that, the entire grain including the bran, the germ, and the endosperm. Lots of refined carbohydrates are fortified to add back some of the nutrients, but you can't add back all the fiber.” (Suzanne Farrell)
• “Of course, in the art class, I was the model.” (Suzanne Farrell) [art/class]
• “School was fun.” (Suzanne Farrell)
• “I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.” (Suzanne Farrell) [myths/people]
• “The wonderful thing about life it that there will always be variables. You have to see them and be aware of them to know how to react to them.” (Suzanne Farrell) [thing/life/willpower]
• “As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.” (Suzanne Farrell) [music]

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