Ballet Quotes - Page 17

• I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast.

  Svetlana Boginskaya

  Gymnast, Realizing, Known

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• At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I heard ancient Africa in his music. When he played, it was like a ballet. He captured the sound of the universe. Monk could take a triad, a simple chord, and make it sound dissonant. I'm sure that element he had in his piano was part of the two years he spent traveling with his mother in gospel music in the tent shows.

  Randy Weston

  Music, Mother, Simple

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• I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use and ballet is something I really respect.

  Herschel Walker

  Athlete, Thinking, Years

  "Mma Fighter Herschel Walker Talks About His Diet, Ballet, and the NFL Playoffs". Examiner.com, January 20, 2011.

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• Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless but there is a lot of work. It’s exactly like doing ballet. It’s hours and hours but when you go onstage it’s just the pleasure of dancing.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Ideas, People, Dancing

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• One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

  Clive Barnes

  Beautiful, Sight, Theatre

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• I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

  Rachel Corrie

  Mother, Teacher, Distance

  Rachel Corrie (2009). “Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

  Karen Kain

  Causes, Stories, World

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• There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

  Karen Kain

  Challenges, Force, Involved

  "Reimagining Romeo and Juliet" by Karen Kain, www.huffingtonpost.ca. November 15, 2011.

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• Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true. His aesthetic -- steeped in the Russian school but open to contemporary sources -- is ideal for this work and for our company, which, with our classical heritage and our passion for the modern, is perfectly suited to his distinctive dance vision.

  Karen Kain

  Dream, Passion, School

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• I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself.

  Amanda McKerrow

  Dance, Mean, Voice

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• I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Hangover, Australia

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

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• Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

  Louis Horst

  Dance, Dancing, Matter

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• I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

  Ansel Elgort

  Faces, Performing, Hated

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• Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Crafts, Grounding, Given

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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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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• I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

  Jennifer Ellison

  First Love, Firsts, Wanted

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Dad, Ballet Class, Sick

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• Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

  John Guare

  Listening, Body, Spirit

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• Ballet.something pure in this crazy world

  Misty Copeland

  Crazy, World, Pure

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• You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.

  Misty Copeland

  Stay Strong, Motivation, Negative

  "Misty Copeland, Chelsea Clinton, and other successful people share the advice they'd give their younger selves" by Elisa Jackson and Levo League, www.businessinsider.com. September 27, 2015.

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• Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

  George Balanchine

  Speak

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• Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!

  Diana Vreeland

  Mad, Courses

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• I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, I took my first yoga class in 1980 and knew from the start that it would be a lifelong passion.

  Rodney Yee

  Philosophy, Yoga, Passion

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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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• I want to share the ballet world with everyone.

  Misty Copeland

  World, Want, Share

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