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

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

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

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

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

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

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.

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

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

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

Knowledge will help you to solve any problem

Who ever achieved greatness by playing it safe!

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

I always think street but train sport.

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won't be the last.

There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.