Ballet Quotes - Page 18

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

  Manu Bennett

  Dancing, Ballet Dancing, Physique

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• I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

  Samantha Barks

  Church Choir, Play, Rocks

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• Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your body’s frailties and conflicts and general revolt, and then one day your body is not separate any more. You’ve in a sense become the piano or the dance or the word or the prayer. The prayer is in your heart. The prayer is your heart.

  Heather King

  Prayer, Writing, Heart

  Heather King (2015). “Stripped: At the Intersection of Cancer, Culture, and Christ”, p.38, Loyola Press

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Healing, Ballet Class

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• I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Care, Too Much, Conformity

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think they don't understand it. Actually they do. It's the most primitive form of appeal.

  Robert Helpmann

  Football, Art, Thinking

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

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• People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I answer that it is not clever at all. It is the gift of looking at oneself coolly, of calculating the future objectively. I could see the danger signals as far as ballet was concerned before anyone else did, that's all.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Clever, People

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

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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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• 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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• I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Beautiful, Yoga, Thinking

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• The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it’s gone on for too long. Nothing would make me happier than having a company that reflects society, to have dancers onstage that people can relate to.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Art, Ideas, White

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• I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

  Jenna Dewan

  Artist, Roots, Hip Hop

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

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• When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

  Michelle Dockery

  Children, School, Singing

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

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• My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

  Rachel Stevens

  Dancer, Jazz, Trainers

  "Rachel Stevens on her dream weekend". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. September 24, 2011.

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