Ballet Shoes Quotes

• Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Dance, Dream, Ballet Class

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• You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

  Patrick Swayze

  Growing Up, Kids, Fighting

  "FOR YOUNG VIEWERS; Into Africa: Patrick Swayze's 19th-Century Eco Trip". Interview with Jody Alesandro, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 2004.

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• I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

  Marie Windsor

  Shoes, Ballet, Boots

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

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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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• Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Dance, Dancing, Perfection

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• The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.

  Christian Louboutin

  Shoes, Feet, Dancer

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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, Ballet

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• And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy bracelet as she set down his glass. This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Flower, Happy Life

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• Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Dad, Years, Shoes

  "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.

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