Suzanne Farrell Quotes (45 Quotes)

Research showed that the average American was only eating about one serving a day of whole grains.

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.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

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.

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.

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

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

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

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.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

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.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

When you're choosing nuts, make sure to get them raw and unsalted.

My feelings started to change when I realized that dancing was getting inside my body, emotionally, as well as physically.

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.

I don't believe you can be an honest performer and a spectator at the same time.

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.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to dance, to tell your body what you want it to do.

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.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

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.

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.

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

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

I just heard music and wanted to dance, wanted to be in a company, and wanted to make it my life.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

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

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

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

It brought out in me the person whom I had the potential to become. I think that's why I loved it for its own sake, not to be a ballerina.

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.

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.

My mother was very interested in giving her daughters the advantage of music and dance, if we had an interest in it. My father was not.

In general, nuts are good, ... But walnuts are great because they have high levels of omega-3 fatty acids. Other nuts don't.

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

I still feel like a 15 year-old girl coming to New York. Dancing does that to you. I think it keeps you really young.

I was very much of a tomboy.

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.