00:07I grew up in a very middle-class home in Brooklyn, New York, and I was always a precocious child.
00:15We lived at 225 Parkside Avenue, and across the street was Miss Nottage's dancing school.
00:22And I tried. I took ballet. I took tap. I took acrobatics.
00:26My mother had taken me to see Swan Lake, and I said, oh, that's what I wanted to do.
00:30Look how beautiful they are and whatever.
00:32And my father looked at me and said to me, sweetheart, you should sue the city because the city put
00:38the sidewalks too close to your ass.
00:40You have very short legs. Ballerina is not for you.
00:45That was his message to me.
00:48You're talented. You're wonderful.
00:50But don't reach for something that is actually going to disappoint you because you will thereafter lose confidence.
00:56You're welcome.
00:56Look how beautiful you do.
01:00What's good?
01:01You
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