Ballet Quotes - Page 14

• On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics.

  Paul Dano

  Character, Jazz, Mathematics

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• Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

  Karl Marx

  Museums, Civilization, Dancer

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

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• Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on.

  Joan Chen

  Mom, President, Hawaii

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• I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

  Joan Chen

  Imagination, People, Hula

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• Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.

  Joan Chen

  San Francisco, Way, Hawaii

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• Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

  Louis Horst

  Dance, Dancing, Matter

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• Sing like there's nobody listening,
  And live like it's heaven on earth.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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• I want to share the ballet world with everyone.

  Misty Copeland

  World, Want, Share

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• I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.

  Benjamin Walker

  Teacher, Art, Odds

  Source: collider.com

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• The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it’s gone on for too long. Nothing would make me happier than having a company that reflects society, to have dancers onstage that people can relate to.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Art, Ideas, White

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• I've got used to the fact -​ just about -​ that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other Beatles. If I took up ballet dancing, my ballet dancing would be compared with Paul (McCartney)'s bowling.

  John Lennon

  Dancing, Would Be, Facts

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• In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Eight, Dancer, News

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• I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year. That's where I danced after the year they offered me a contract with the company.

  Joan Chen

  Summer, Couple, School

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• I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.

  Joan Chen

  Dancer, Competition, Firsts

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• I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

  Diane Kruger

  Beautiful, Emotional, Ballet Class

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• Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

  Christian Lacroix

  Children, Theatre, Opera

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• I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers and musical theatre performers and tap dancers and orchestras and dog acts. You had to leave your home, be in the presence of other people, know how to behave, and enjoy the human being whose beating heart was in front of you.

  Laura Benanti

  Dog, Home, Heart

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

  Elle Fanning

  School, Hip Hop, Hips

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• I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.

  Misty Copeland

  Ballet Class, Everyday, Normal

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

  Ansel Elgort

  Nine

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• If you looked at my feet, you would know for sure that I used to do ballet. They're completely destroyed and ripped up.

  Nina Dobrev

  Feet, Used, Knows

  "Nina Dobrev’s New Chapter". Interview with Michael Peña, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much artistry can still dazzle us in the manner of the circus or sports arena translated to a higher plane. Though the perfect blend of the two elements is the consummation devoutly to be wished, the real enemy of good ballet is not the slight preponderance of one or the other but the prevalence of pantomime--the turning of dance into second-rate theater.

  John Simon

  Sports, Strong, Real

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• Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.

  John Locke

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• I am very obsessed with ballet now because it is a very difficult sport and a beautiful one because it is not about money. It's not like playing football or tennis - dance has no sponsors, it's just for the beauty. Maybe it is the only last pure sport.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Beautiful, Sports, Football

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• At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.

  Li Cunxin

  Children, Years, Careers

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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