Ballet Quotes - Page 26

• Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Mother, Class, Years

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• I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  New York, Piano, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

  Zoe Saldana

  Art, Character, Dancer

  Zoe Saldana Biography (Trivia/ Quotes), TV.com, www.tv.com.

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• I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

  Zoe Saldana

  Dying, Quitting, Felt

  "Zoe Saldana On Why She Quit Ballet As A Teen: ‘I Was Dying Inside’" by Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

  Miles Teller

  College, Dancing, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

  Emily VanCamp

  Dancing, Hip Hop, Hips

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• Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down!

  Emily VanCamp

  Lying, Three, Four

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• Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

  Sutton Foster

  Beautiful, Art, Hard Work

  "From Broadway to BUNHEADS, Sutton Foster Previews Her New ABC Family Series". Interview, www.thetvaddict.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

  Michael Ealy

  Play, Theatre, Broadway

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• Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.

  Laurence Shames

  Sweet, Giving, Inspired

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• There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Opera, Alleys

  Song: Jungleland, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Chess, Excellent, Humour

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• Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.

  Alois Podhajsky

  Teacher, Horse, Art

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• The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the same horse, but rather the conservation of the horse's enjoyment, suppleness and finesse during the performance, which calls for comparison with the finest ballet, or performance of an orchestra, or seeing a play by Racine, so moving is the sight of perfectly unisoned movements.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Art, Moving

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• I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

  Maisie Williams

  Dancing, Jazz, Streets

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• I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Dancer, Training, Fosse

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• My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

  Stefanie Powers

  Mother

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• I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Beautiful, Baby, Teacher

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• The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

  Lily Rabe

  Soccer, Brother, Focus

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

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• I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighting, Thinking

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• I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Growing Up, Dancer, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Inspirational, Tree, Trying

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• I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

  Tracy Anderson

  Mom, Dancer, Proud

  "Teeny, tiny body, anyone?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Country, Crazy

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• When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.

  Summer Glau

  Exercise, Water, Training

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

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