Ballet Quotes - Page 22

• Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.

  Noah Webster

  Order, People, Dancing

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• Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.

  Paul Robeson

  Heritage, Steps, Modern

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• About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Night, Fire

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.184, Pearson Education

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• We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Never Forget, Forget, Cradle

  Alain LeRoy Locke (1988). “The Negro and his music: Negro art: past and present”, Ayer Co Pub

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• A mistake is simply another way of doing things

  Katharine Graham

  Wisdom, Work, Mistake

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• When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Heart, Giving, Dancing

  Lewis B. Smedes (2002). “A Life of Distinction: What It Takes to Live with Courage, Honesty, and Gratitude”, Shaw

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• I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

  Amy Adams

  Beautiful, Would Be

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 6, 2013.

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• For you and I are past our dancing days.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Past, Dancing

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [35]

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• There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

  David Gere

  Dance, Dancing, Three

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• I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

  Frank Hubbard

  Girl, Thinking, Looks

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• She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that's why this [award] is for her. She's a wonderful mother.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

  Bowie Kuhn

  Beautiful, Baseball, Art

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• It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet. It is purer than any dance because the actions of the players are not governed by music or crowded into a formula by a director. The movement is natural and unrehearsed and controlled only by the unexpected flight of the ball.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• Football is the ballet of the masses.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Soccer, Football, Philosophical

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• Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.

  Bill Tilden

  Sports, Art, Winning

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• Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Sports, Football, Nfl Players

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963

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• At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to ballet, but every workout of mine included training in choreography.

  Natalia Yurchenko

  Workout, Gymnastics, Two

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• I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

  Alan Bennett

  Hands, Collaboration, Fruit

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• We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.

  Kristie Phillips

  Morning, Gymnastics, Practice

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• To dance is to give channel to the Creator.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Giving, Creator

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• They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Swans, Rumor

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• I love ballet and I love dancing...... It's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - It's really hard, but much more fun.

  Penelope Cruz

  Fun, Discipline, Dancing

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• Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

  Oscar Levant

  Baseball, Fairy

  "Oscar the Magnificent". "The Los Angeles Times", January 26, 1969.

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• I'd really like to get to do some fighting, some martial arts training, because I think that would be really fun I do gymnastics and ballet, and I'm very, very into the physically acrobatic end of sport.

  Anna Paquin

  Sports, Art, Fun

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• He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

  John Ray

  Fortune, Pipe, Wells

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.98

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