Ballet Quotes - Page 13

• The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

  Vera Caspary

  Cat, Feet, Dancer

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• Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden-each strict, exacting. And with 'a crow's sky-knowing mind,' Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. Chloe Honum is 'one astounding flame' of a poet, and I predict a long-lasting one.

  Claudia Emerson

  Mother, Suicide, Book

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• My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Two, Asking, Half

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• Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Feet

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• My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.

  Misty Copeland

  Years, Ballet Class, Careers

  Source: bknation.org

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• It takes a lot of money to be a part of the ballet world. Both the training and the supplies are expensive, the shoes, the leotards and the tights.

  Misty Copeland

  Shoes, Training, Tights

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.

  Misty Copeland

  Hip Hop, Dancer, Culture

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.

  Anna Paskevska

  Giving, Technique, Favors

  Anna Paskevska, Chair of the Dance Department Anna Paskevska (2005). “Ballet Beyond Tradition”, p.50, Routledge

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• Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It requires discipline, taking care of yourself, taking care of your own body first. Then it allows you to give of that beauty, the beauty that you acquire by sculpting your own body all your life.

  Peter Martins

  Art, Discipline, Giving

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• I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.

  Misty Copeland

  Believe, Way, Refined

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When we go in the ring we know we're going to get hit. We know we're not the ballet people. But if you go in there and have doubt in your mind that you're afraid to get hit, forget it.

  Kostya Tszyu

  People, Doubt, Mind

  "Archives: Scoop Interview with Kostya Tszyu". Interview with Scoop Malinowski, ringobserver.com. October 9, 2017.

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• Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking.

  Howell Raines

  Beautiful, Moving, Lakes

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• Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.

  Jay Carr

  Dog, Swans, Looks

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• I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Children, Ideas, Icons

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• From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  School, Play, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Dancer, World

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Lakes, Swans, Dancer

  "Black Swan Choreographer Benjamin Millepied on Teaching Natalie Portman to Have Swan Arms" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. December 3, 2010.

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• I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Hangover, Australia

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

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• My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

  Rachel Stevens

  Dancer, Jazz, Trainers

  "Rachel Stevens on her dream weekend". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. September 24, 2011.

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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, Age

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• I take class. I'm always ballet ready. I'm ready to go - got my tights and my shoes.

  Joan Chen

  Class, Shoes, Tights

  Source: collider.com

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• Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Soccer, Football, Media

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• In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer. I'm saying that and someone's going to be born tomorrow who decides to do that and I'm going to have my foot in my mouth.

  Joan Chen

  Order, Feet, Dancer

  Source: collider.com

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• I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.

  Fergie

  Fashion, Weekend, Shoes

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• Nicholas Hytner, who directed Center Stage, is a huge ballet fan. He was completely open, as was Bruce Beresford, to get our perspective. "No, we wouldn't do this. Yes, we would do that. That's not realistic." So, I feel like Center Stage did well in that respect.

  Amanda Schull

  Perspective, Fans, Realistic

  Source: collider.com

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