Ballet Quotes - Page 20

• The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Fields, Consciousness, Possibility

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• A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Doe, Genius, Homework

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• Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with adversity and to go farther than I thought I could. You find out what you're made of.

  Andrew Asnes

  Dance, Adversity, Dancing

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• Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

  Anna Paskevska

  Dance, Children, Discipline

  Anna Paskevska (2013). “Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course”, p.6, Routledge

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• The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

  Alonzo King

  Art, Humanity, Purpose

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• A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

  Toni Bentley

  Commitment, Shoes, Eccentric

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• Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.

  Richard Saunders

  Winning, Play, Brain

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• The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.

  Colum McCann

  Real, Sometimes, Life Is

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• I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.

  Angel Corella

  Ideas, Mind, Trying

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• When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

  Craig Claiborne

  Moving, Food, Dancing

  "Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations". Book by Susan L. Rattiner, September 19, 2012.

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• I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

  Ginger Rogers

  Inspirational, Dance, Men

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• Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  People, Interesting, Trying

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• We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

  Wendy Whelan

  Teaching, Trying, Movement

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• Even if you weren't born with a genetically perfect body, you can take something like a hand, where everyone has the same capabilities, and you can make it speak. You can make it speak in many different ways.

  Sarah Lamb

  Hands, Perfect, Different

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• I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teaching

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• The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

  Vince Gill

  Mom, Baseball, Dad

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• Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Perfect, Great Art

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

  George Balanchine

  Art, Believe, Independent

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

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• The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

  George Balanchine

  Girl, Strong, Elephants

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• The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Improvisation, Sidewalk

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.50, Vintage

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• I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.

  Lily Aldridge

  Thinking, Long, Boxing

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

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• Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.

  Nina Ananiashvili

  Beautiful, Feelings, Movement

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• I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy.

  Edward Villella

  Practice, Energy, Faster

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• Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Silence, Dancer

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• The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

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