Nutcrackers Quotes

• The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

  Vera Nazarian

  Christmas, Holiday, Childhood

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• When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.

  Robert Gottlieb

  America, December, Behinds

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• If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Way, Shock

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• Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

  Edward Abbey

  Reincarnation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Plot

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• What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.

  Kelly Easton

  Stars, Eye, Color

  Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

  Gladys Taber

  Moving, Hero, Men

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• You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

  Natalia Makarova

  Lakes, Swans, Way

  "Natalia Makarova, Kennedy Center honoree". Interview with Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.

  Matthew Bourne

  Moving, Scary, Mouths

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• I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Eye, Technique, Stories

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