Children being left, it's not always like books of Charles Dickens. When you lose your parents in childhood, it's a fact of life, and, you know, human beings are extraordinary powerful survivors. My mother commit suicide. I was lucky it was not in front of me. O. K.? Which is truth, and Father was confused, and we never had any relationship, serious relationship. I never knew my father, in a way. But what? It's made me different? No, I mean. I blame for every fuckups in my life my parents? No. [Pause] I got lucky. I fell in love with dance.


As quoted in "Profile: The Soloist", reprinted in Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker, p. 66

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Children being left, it's not always like books of Charles Dickens. When you lose your parents in childhood, it's a fact of life, and, you know,...

Children being left, it's not always like books of Charles Dickens. When you lose your parents in childhood, it's a fact of life, and, you know,...

Children being left, it's not always like books of Charles Dickens. When you lose your parents in childhood, it's a fact of life, and, you know,...

Children being left, it's not always like books of Charles Dickens. When you lose your parents in childhood, it's a fact of life, and, you know,...