Ballet Dancing Quotes - Page 2

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  The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Lying, Women

  Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

  Voltaire

  Dance, Reading, Two

  "The Works of Voltaire: A Contemporary Version". Volume 6,

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• Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dance, Heart, Ballet Class

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• Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  Charles Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd (1991). “The prose poems and La Fanfarlo”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

  Martha Graham

  Life, Dance, Education

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Healing, Ballet Class

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• I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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• Sing like there's nobody listening,
  And live like it's heaven on earth.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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• Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.' (1937).

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• Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

  Mary Schmich

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet Class

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

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• Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

  Ted Shawn

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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  The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

  James Brown

  Happiness, Dance, Adversity

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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Feet

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Passion, Ballet Class

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• Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

  George Sava

  Dance, Men, Expression

  "This thing called ballet".

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• Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Dance, Dream, Ballet Class

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• I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
  Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.106, DEBOLS!LLO

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• There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

  Vicki Baum

  Happiness, Happy, Dance

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• The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

  Mata Hari

  Love, Dance, Art

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• I've got used to the fact -​ just about -​ that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other Beatles. If I took up ballet dancing, my ballet dancing would be compared with Paul (McCartney)'s bowling.

  John Lennon

  Dancing, Ballet, Would Be

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• Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

  Aamir Khan

  Play, Dancing, Ballet

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• I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  New York, Piano, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

  Manu Bennett

  Dancing, Ballet, Physique

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