Ballerina Quotes - Page 2

• I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

  Ellen Barkin

  Teacher, Acting, Levels

  "Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.

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• I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

  Lucy Hawking

  Children, Rooms, My Family

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• Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.

  Ron Suskind

  Daughter, Son, Winning

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.

  Koren Zailckas

  Girl, Sorority, Alive

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• I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When it came to my childhood-growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially-my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.

  Misty Copeland

  Mother, Growing Up, Sibling

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• As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.

  Caitlin Moran

  Book, Maggie, Former

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• Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

  Natalie Portman

  Mean, Shoes, New Experiences

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would dream about being a movie star too. But those dreams are the impossible kind, the kind you don't really set your heart on.

  Sharon Tate

  Girl, Dream, Stars

  "Screen Stories" magazine, 1967.

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• A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

  Daniel Handler

  Horse, Mistake, Media

  "The Vile Village". Book by Daniel Handler, 2001.

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• In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?

  Chris Colfer

  Believe, Mean, Why Not

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• With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

  James Wolcott

  Swans, Scary, Black

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• I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dance, Thinking, Ballet

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

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• Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?

  Jack Anderson

  Dance, Art, Night

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• I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Kids, Acting, Singers

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• After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.

  David Levithan

  Reflection, Lakes, Swings

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.93, Penguin

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• A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role.

  Maria Tallchief

  Different, Roles, Steps

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• When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.

  Maris Liepa

  Dance, Ballet, Weight

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• I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dance, Dancing, Flawless

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Lady Oracle”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets." "Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina.

  Cassandra Clare

  Worry, Secret, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.

  Maria Tallchief

  Native American, Appreciated, American Indian

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• I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.

  Lily Tomlin

  Mean, Cowboy, Nurse

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• A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

  Toni Bentley

  Commitment, Shoes, Ballet

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• I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me. [...] There’s just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don’t know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don’t invalidate me.

  Cat Power

  War, Mistake, Moving

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

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• Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Dog, Cat, Cowboy

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.256, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.

  Brandon Mull

  Song, Jealous, Riding

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