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Margaret Qualley

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I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.

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I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn’t want it to be my entire life forever. And then it was this very specific life, and I wanted to learn about other things. So I modeled to fill the time because dancing was very much a job, even when I was 14 years old.

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I think, a lot of times, people don’t want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

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May 14, 2024

I think, a lot of times, people don’t want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

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May 14, 2024

I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn’t want it to be my entire life forever. And then it was this very specific life, and I wanted to learn about other things. So I modeled to fill the time because dancing was very much a job, even when I was 14 years old.

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