Ballet Quotes - Page 11

• Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!

  Ronan Keating

  Dance, Children, Thinking

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• Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.

  Marius Petipa

  Europe, States, Said

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• At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I heard ancient Africa in his music. When he played, it was like a ballet. He captured the sound of the universe. Monk could take a triad, a simple chord, and make it sound dissonant. I'm sure that element he had in his piano was part of the two years he spent traveling with his mother in gospel music in the tent shows.

  Randy Weston

  Music, Mother, Simple

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• I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use and ballet is something I really respect.

  Herschel Walker

  Athlete, Thinking, Years

  "Mma Fighter Herschel Walker Talks About His Diet, Ballet, and the NFL Playoffs". Examiner.com, January 20, 2011.

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• Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless but there is a lot of work. It’s exactly like doing ballet. It’s hours and hours but when you go onstage it’s just the pleasure of dancing.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Ideas, People, Dancing

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• One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

  Clive Barnes

  Beautiful, Sight, Theatre

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• I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

  Rachel Corrie

  Mother, Teacher, Distance

  Rachel Corrie (2009). “Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

  Karen Kain

  Causes, Stories, World

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• I found at a young age that emotions aren't always handled with talking and other emotions. I started ballet, seriously around fourteen, and let me tell you, nothing can give you an emotional reset like a good ballet barre.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Emotional, Talking, Giving

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• I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.

  Elle Fanning

  Fashion, One Day, Week

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• I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

  Misty Copeland

  New York, Years, Cities

  "Not My Job: Ballerina Misty Copeland Gets Quizzed On Morris Dancing". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 25, 2014.

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• I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina when I was a kid, so she and I were always at ballet conservatories and going to school with our hair in buns.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Teacher, Kids, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that I designed had to be big. Normally, I'd design a kitchen that was half the size of a normal kitchen, just to make everything feel kind of womb-like, but the kitchen in a ballet would have to be like 100 feet wide and just as long.

  Guy Maddin

  Feet, Space, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.

  Guy Maddin

  Saying Yes, Shooting, Broke

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the environmental and social, collaborating with ballet companies to score a show, the bike tour - all of that stuff comes together through community building with music.

  Ben Sollee

  Community, Working Together, Environmental

  "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast.

  Svetlana Boginskaya

  Gymnast, Realizing, Known

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• I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices help me to be aware of my body, my center, and how I move, both with my physical space and my mental space.

  Amanda Schull

  Moving, Yoga, Ballet Class

  "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

  Elle Fanning

  Hardest, Hardest Thing

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• In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

  George Gascoigne

  Eye, Hands, Liberty

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• People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I answer that it is not clever at all. It is the gift of looking at oneself coolly, of calculating the future objectively. I could see the danger signals as far as ballet was concerned before anyone else did, that's all.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Clever, People

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

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• I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.

  William Shakespeare

  Cry, Kitten, Ballads

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [128]

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• I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2010.

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• Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by champagne drunk out of their toeshoes till dawn, in the company of financiers ... no, most of their time is spent in filthy rehearsal halls, inhaling dust, or else in class, daily, year in year out, practicing, practicing even after they are already prima ballerinas.

  Gore Vidal

  Night, Dust, Years

  Gore Vidal (2011). “Death in the Fifth Position”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.

  Susan Stroman

  Stories, Pieces, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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