Ballet Quotes - Page 5

• You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?

  Greg Ray

  Girl, Dancing, Tiptoes

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• The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

  Maurice Bejart

  Dance, Dancing, Perception

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• You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dance, Progress, Attention

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• No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Motivational, Dance, Business

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  The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Real, School

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• Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

  Robert Caro

  New York, Cities, Faster

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• In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

  Vincente Minnelli

  New York, Firsts, Shows

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

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• Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, "This is really good, you should do this", She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.

  Dannii Minogue

  Encouragement, Dancer, Married

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• Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

  Neve Campbell

  Versailles

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• I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

  Robert Caro

  Years, Knows

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• I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

  Carmen Electra

  Art, Attitude, School

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• The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dancing, Healthy, Important

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.

  Juliet Mills

  School, Eight, Years

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• I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Class, Three

  "Oksana Baiul: Online Interview". Golden Skate Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

  Janine Turner

  Texas, Directors, Boards

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

  Sarah Sutton

  School, Years, Nine

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• And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

  John Guare

  Easter, New York, Sunday

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• You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

  Robert Smith

  Eight, Flight, Drink

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• I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

  John Guare

  New York, Thinking, Years

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• I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

  Leslie Caron

  Country, Middle, Eastern

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• I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Grew, Grew Up, Theater

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• I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Modern, Used, Modern Dance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable when you dance, you're not pushing yourself hard enough. 100 % is not enough. You have to give 200%. One tendu takes years of hard work and will never be perfect. Everything in ballet is a challenge.

  George Balanchine

  Hard Work, Years, Giving

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• I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

  Kiernan Shipka

  Vocabulary, Different, World

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

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• At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Style, Routine

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