Suzanne Farrell Quotes

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

Living, Ungrateful, Moment

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

Pain, Sacrifice, Why

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.
Suzanne Farrell

Insecure, Moment, Though

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

Thought, Knew, Dancing

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

Music, Hear, Soon

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

Love, Music, Moving

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

Work, Emotions, Class

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.
Suzanne Farrell

Care, Else, Wanted

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

Career, Choice, Ability

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.
Suzanne Farrell

Life, Great, Young

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, Great, Two

I learned to love dance for its own sake.
Suzanne Farrell

Love, Learned, Dance

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

Thought, Quite, Liked

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

Results, Liked, Hearing

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

Time, Read, Liked

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

Another, Loved, Healthy

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

Life, Politics, Yourself

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

Love, Mother, Play

I was very much of a tomboy.
Suzanne Farrell

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

Cool, Thought, Inside

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

Child, Fact, Exist

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

Art, Class, Model

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

Life, Age, Control

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

Child, Once, Started

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

Great, Desire, Dancing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: August 16, 1945

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