Ballet Quotes - Page 12

• Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

  Mordecai Richler

  Beauty, Men, Dancer

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• I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.

  Julie Andrews

  Yoga, Work Out, Roles

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• Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

  C. L. R. James

  Theatre, Opera, Firsts

  "Beyond a Boundary". Book by C. L. R. James, 1963.

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• If we don't take that time (to be romantic), then it's karate, then it's ballet, and then there's Christmas, and then my husband is flying off to tour around the world.

  Heidi Klum

  Husband, Flying, World

  InStyle, February 2010.

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• Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing. That's what's great about the choreography that goes on here. It's a delicate ballet with a fist in the face.

  David Lyons

  Mean, Fighting, Boxing

  Source: collider.com

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• Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Kind, Violent

  "LA Confidential". "Mojo" Magazine, April 2001.

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• I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.

  Kate Hudson

  Teacher, Dancing, Dancer

  "Kate Hudson Wants You to Wear Gym Clothes On a Date". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. June 8, 2015.

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• I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.

  Alicia Vikander

  Boogie, Stills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ... Sigmund is astounded to see that their leader is part swan and part woman - unfortunately, divided lengthwise. She enchants Sigmund, who is careful not to make any poultry jokes.

  Woody Allen

  Humorous, Moon, Swans

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• Just as a child, before I ever knew what ballet was, there was something in me where I was always searching for something structured, something that was bigger than me, and something so historical that I could be a part of. I didn't find that until I stepped into the ballet world, and it was overwhelming, the feeling of being a part of something that's bigger than you.

  Misty Copeland

  Children, Feelings, Historical

  Source: collider.com

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• Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try to push diversity, for as long as I live.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Long, Diversity

  Source: collider.com

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• New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  New York, Real, Home

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• Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.

  Misty Copeland

  Teacher, School, Training

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

  Misty Copeland

  Dancer, The End Of The Day, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

  Placido Domingo

  Eye, Musician, Opera

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• My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

  Michelle Shocked

  School, Kids, Grandmother

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• My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet.

  Misty Copeland

  Basketball, Class, Clothes

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

  Mark Morris

  Likes, Modern, Shows

  "Mark Morris Interview: Dance Is What I Do". Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 30, 2010.

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• The woman represents ballet. She is most important, powerful and vital to it. Therefore, she is not "less than" a man. If anything she is "more than" in this field.

  Misty Copeland

  Powerful, Men, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey

  Andy Partridge

  Rainy Day, Silent Films, Play

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• There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.

  Cam Newton

  Football, War, Mind

  Source: www.vibe.com

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• Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Way, Profession

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• Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dance, Mean, Ends

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• Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Thinking, Dancer, Anorexia

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

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• Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Art, Knowing, Form

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