Pointe Quotes - Page 2

• I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast curtseying. I took dance lessons at Miss Debbie's Dance Studio, and she put this picture of me in the storefront window. I was so unbelievably humiliated by the sight of myself.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Sight, Hands, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Trying, Cinema

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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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, Ballet, Jazz

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• The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.

  Pixie Lott

  School, Shoes, Ballet

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• These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Hero, Sacrifice

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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