Ballet Quotes - Page 19

• Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

  Murray Louis

  Dance, Light, Dancing

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• Dancing is the body made poetic.

  Ernst Bacon

  Dance, Dancing, Body

  Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, Lost

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• Come and trip it as ye go
  On the light fantastic toe.

  John Milton

  Dance, Light, Goes On

  "L'Allegro" l. 33 (1645)

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• When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

  Bill Austin

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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• A child miseducated is a child lost.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly.

  Liza Minnelli

  Dance, Sports, Baseball

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• I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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• A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Calves, Good Education

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• The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!

  Gerald Arpino

  Inspirational, Dance, Fall

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• Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Motivational, Dance, Running

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

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• …* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.

  Sylvia Plath

  Art, Hate, Book

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• He was a boy, she was a girl,
  Can I make it any more obvious?
  He was a punk, she did ballet,
  What more can I say?
  He wanted her, she'd never tell,
  But secretly she wanted him as well.

  Avril Lavigne

  Girl, Boys, Punk

  "Song: 'Sk8er Boi'". 2007.

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• I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

  Richard Kadrey

  World, Slippers, Steel

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, Book 1)”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate

  Matsuo Basho

  Butterfly, Air, White

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• Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.

  Joel Salatin

  Moving, Animal, Drug

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• Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Believe, Walks

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• I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation--he should become identified with it.

  Antony Tudor

  Dance, Self, Desire

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• And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy bracelet as she set down his glass. This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Flower, Happy Life

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• I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

  Anton Chekhov

  Horse, Ballerina, Stink

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• Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

  Vera Wang

  School, Mirrors, Dancer

  Interview with Evan Lysacek, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2010.

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• It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Men, Progress

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls .

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Wall, Museums

  Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones, Walker Art Center (1998). “Art performs life: Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones”

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• Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dancing, Want, Quitting

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• I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.

  Rod Milburn

  Running, Track, Dancer

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