Ballet Quotes - Page 23

• I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

  Miranda Otto

  Teacher, Beach, Children

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was an awkward child and the family wanted me to be graceful. When I found out I liked to dance and people seemed to like to watch me, I was determined to go places.

  Vera-Ellen

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.

  Camara Laye

  Dancer, Beats, Tendencies

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• Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in.

  Misty Copeland

  Roles, Mindset

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• I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Believe, Here I Am, Gone

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• If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

  A. J. Liebling

  Girl, Crazy, Boxing

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• Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

  Julia Child

  Work, Women, Food

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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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.

  Bill Tilden

  Sports, Art, Tennis

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• My dancing days are past.

  Philip Massinger

  Past, Dancing

  Philip Massinger (1805). “The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford”, p.149

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• I could have danced all night!

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Night, All Night

  "I Could Have Danced All Night" (song) (1956)

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• I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.

  Ann Hood

  Daughter, Mother, Rain

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• Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

  Deborah Wiles

  Baseball, Art, Drama

  Deborah Wiles (2016). “The Aurora County All-Stars”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Get my swan costume ready.

  Anna Pavlova

  Swans, Dying, Costumes

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• Dancing cheek to cheek.

  Irving Berlin

  Dancing, Cheeks

  "Cheek to Cheek" (song) (1935)

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• Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wine, Joy, Musical

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• I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

  Adam Garcia

  Teacher, Cousin, Ballet Teachers

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• My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Mom, Dad, Night

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

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• I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear, when I was 12, that my body wasn't going to be right. That's always a heartbreaking moment because there's nothing you can do about that. Your body is just not right. You don't have enough turnout. You're not built properly.

  Greta Gerwig

  Great Love, Dancer, Heartbreaking

  Source: collider.com

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• Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

  John Lennon

  Voice, People, Trying

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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  It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophy

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Movements are as eloquent as words.

  Isadora Duncan

  Gymnastics, Movement, Eloquent

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.' (1937).

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• To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

  Pat Steir

  Dancer, Needs, Way

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• I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it was an injury that prevented me from going forward in ballet unfortunately. Well, fortunately because I wouldn't be doing what I am doing now if that had not happened.

  Kiesza

  Years, Choices, Injury

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.

  Michael Angarano

  Mother, Children, Dancing

  Source: www.elle.com

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