Ballet Quotes - Page 17

• I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Mother, Opera, Remember

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• Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

  Ernie Harwell

  Softball, Baseball, Drama

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

  Dave Barry

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

  Darcey Bussell

  Life, Dance, Selfish

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• Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

  Mary Schmich

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet Class

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

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• I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.

  Penelope Cruz

  Yoga, Years, Discipline

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• Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Dance, Vocabulary, Color

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.

  Yamini Krishnamurthy

  Dance, People, Going Out

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• When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.

  Maris Liepa

  Dance, Weight, Causes

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• The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.

  Murray Louis

  Inspirational, Dance, Teacher

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• The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

  Natalia Makarova

  Dance, Running, Spiritual

  Natalia Makarova, Gennady Smakov, Dina Makarova (1979). “A dance autobiography”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Dance, Teacher, Class

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

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• When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.

  Rajneesh

  Dance, Ego, Movement

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• I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Thinking, Discovery

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

  Penelope Cruz

  Fall, Discipline, Dancer

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

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• This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Stupid, People

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• If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

  Antony Tudor

  Dance, Body, Stage

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• The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Mistake, Reality

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• So...I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than ... I don't know,more than they should. And I get totally sucked in by this ridiculous, tiny fur coat. The kind of coat a baby might need to go to the ballet. In Moscow. In 1918. To match her tiny pearls.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Baby, Sweaters, Needs

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• Bleeding feet will bond us.

  Liza Minnelli

  Dance, Feet, Dancing

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• Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

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

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• Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Inspirational, Dance, Love Is

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• Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

  Howard Thurston

  Dance, Heart, Eye

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• The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

  Edgar Degas

  Dance, Heroic, Instill

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• Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Learning, Thinking

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