Ballet Quotes

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  The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Success, Dance, Positivity

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Dancing, Legs

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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• The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

  Twyla Tharp

  Way, Needs, Stories

  "Tharp's New Tale, Woven In Dance" by Gia Kourlas, www.nytimes.com. February 03, 2012.

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• However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

  John Guare

  New York, Believe, Cities

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• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dance, Art, Positivity

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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  Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and it doesn't trickle down unless all of society understands that we must support the arts, whether it's ballet, opera, fashion. Fashion is like opera, is like ballet, is like theatre. It's a visual theatre.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fashion, Art, Support

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Air, Dancer, Earth

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• Dancers are the athletes of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Dance, Philosophical, Athlete

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• Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

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• I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Years, Balance

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• They danced by the light of the moon.

  Edward Lear

  Dance, Moon, Light

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

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• When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

  Angelina Jolie

  Girl, Ghouls, Dancer

  "Career Watch: Has ‘Maleficent’ Restored Angelina Jolie’s Box Office Mojo?" by Susan Wloszczyna, www.indiewire.com. June 2, 2014.

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• I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Women, Humor

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• Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Teacher, Medicine

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• I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

  Elle Macpherson

  Firefighter, Study, Wanted

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• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Running, Pigs

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• What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

  Edward Villella

  Dance, Greek, Mind

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• In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Stories, Impossible

  Life magazine, p. 98, June 11, 1965.

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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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• One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

  Clive Barnes

  Dance, Dancing, Royal

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• Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

  Camille Paglia

  Boys, Heaven, Helping

  "Choices in Relationships: An Introduction to Marriage and the Family". Book by David Knox and Caroline Schacht, 2009.

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• If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

  Artie Shaw

  Needs, Beats, Ifs

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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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• Classical ballet will never die.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dance, Art, Classic

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