Eddie was asked about his training at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
"I heard a lot of 'You're short, you're limited, and you've got a lot of obstacles, so if you want to do this, you've got to want to do it more than just a lot,'" he replied. "'It's not going to be easy for you.' Hearing that just made me work harder.
"Because I was lim--" He stopped and corrected himself.
"Because people said I was limited, that made me say, "I'll show you.'"
Eddie was always saying "I'll show you" in one way or another.
Dance Against Time: the Brief, Brilliant Life of a Joffrey Dancer by Diane Solway. 1994. Page 76.
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