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

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.

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

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

I was very much of a tomboy.

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

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