Ballet Quotes - Page 10

• I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

  Jennifer Ellison

  First Love, Firsts, Wanted

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think they don't understand it. Actually they do. It's the most primitive form of appeal.

  Robert Helpmann

  Football, Art, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Crafts, Grounding, Given

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Care, Too Much, Conformity

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true. His aesthetic -- steeped in the Russian school but open to contemporary sources -- is ideal for this work and for our company, which, with our classical heritage and our passion for the modern, is perfectly suited to his distinctive dance vision.

  Karen Kain

  Dream, Passion, School

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• There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

  Karen Kain

  Challenges, Force, Involved

  "Reimagining Romeo and Juliet" by Karen Kain, www.huffingtonpost.ca. November 15, 2011.

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• Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Dancing, Carriages, Importance

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.99

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• When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Soccer, Gymnastics, Always Trying

  "Chloë Moretz: 'I'm not cussing and killing people - I'm normal'". Interview With Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

  Natalia Makarova

  Reading, World, Inner World

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• Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.

  Liv Ullmann

  Book, Hero, Men

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.

  FKA twigs

  People, Dancer, Different

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.

  Svetlana Zakharova

  Thinking, One Day, Horrible

  "Bolshoi Prima ballerina's grace under pressure" by Lianne Turner, George Webster, www.cnn.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

  Ned Rorem

  Musical, Opera

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• Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United States. As a result of WikiLeaks' hard work, Edward Snowden has political asylum, has travel documents, lives with his girlfriend, goes to the ballet and earns substantial speaking fees. Edward Snowden is essentially free and happy. That is no coincidence. It was my strategy to undo the chilling effect of the 35 year Manning sentence and it has worked.

  Julian Assange

  Girlfriend, Hard Work, Years

  "We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• When I was playing college football, they would take the football team to a ballet school. We would learn to do tour jete's to prepare us when you are running in pursuit to tackle a ball carrier and you get hit, or somebody comes from another angle. This way you can spin away from the hit and your foot is out so you can go right into your run - basically, it pushed us toward the tackle. There's a good tweet: "Take ballet - it will push you towards the tackle."

  Gary Busey

  Football, Running, Team

  Source: www.clydefitchreport.com

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• To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

  John Milton

  Dancing, Maids, Shade

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.407

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• Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

  Agnes de Mille

  Hypnosis, Self, Giving

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• Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

  Lord Byron

  Feet, Legs, Arms

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• Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Saws, Glances

  1804 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published 1807).

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• It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance or downtown dance, ballet is formalized, and there's something orthodox about it that I like. I like that there's less emphasis on subversion and innovation. I actually think that my musical vernacular or my musical voice is also less inclined toward innovation and subversion. I think I'm a traditionalist.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Nice, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want a big man physically as well as intellectually. l want a man with the thigh muscles to give me a good frolic in the sack, the kind who'll tear hell out of a thick steak, and yet who can go to the ballet with me and discuss Hegelian dialectic and know what the hell he's talking about.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Talking, Giving

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• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

  Martha Graham

  Art, Dancer, Age

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• My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.

  Bette Midler

  Book, Kids, Makeup

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• The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Autumn, Red Leaves, Lasts

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Plays of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Dramatic Works of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel; including The Piccolomini, The Death of Wallenstein, Remorse”, p.20, e-artnow

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• As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.

  Jillian Hervey

  Different, Jazz, Modern

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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