Ballet Quotes - Page 14

• Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

  Julia Child

  Work, Women, Food

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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• Dancing is like breathing-missing a day doing either is very bad.

  Vera-Ellen

  Breathing, Dancing, Missing

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• You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.

  Buddy Ebsen

  Negative, Lessons, Reactions

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

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• Never excuse yourself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Excuse

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• The artistic path is a fearless occupation.

  Alonzo King

  Fearless, Occupation, Path

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• To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

  Alonzo King

  Baby, World, Firsts

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• The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

  Alonzo King

  Artist, World Love, Voice

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• The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.

  Alonzo King

  Art, Dope, Lovers

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• Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.

  Alonzo King

  Drunk, Moments

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• We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Never Forget, Forget, Cradle

  Alain LeRoy Locke (1988). “The Negro and his music: Negro art: past and present”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Why be normal? What's the point?

  Richard Saunders

  Normal

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• Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.

  Richard Saunders

  Winning, Play, Brain

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• A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Doe, Genius, Homework

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• The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Fields, Consciousness, Possibility

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• We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

  Wendy Whelan

  Teaching, Trying, Movement

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• Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  People, Interesting, Trying

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• Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dancing, Want, Quitting

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• I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Believe, Here I Am, Gone

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• Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in.

  Misty Copeland

  Roles, Mindset

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• All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.

  Camara Laye

  Dancer, Beats, Tendencies

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• He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

  John Ray

  Fortune, Pipe, Wells

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.98

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• Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

  Oscar Levant

  Baseball, Fairy

  "Oscar the Magnificent". "The Los Angeles Times", January 26, 1969.

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• Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.

  Judith Jamison

  People, Giving, Dancing

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• Dancing cheek to cheek.

  Irving Berlin

  Dancing, Cheeks

  "Cheek to Cheek" (song) (1935)

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• I could have danced all night!

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Night, All Night

  "I Could Have Danced All Night" (song) (1956)

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