Ballet Quotes - Page 25

• Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Hockey, Ice, Two

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• Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn't hurt my back, and it's a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body.

  Erin Heatherton

  Beautiful, Hurt, Moving

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• When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure your own performance area, you can indulge yourself in different territories. Fashion is one. And ballet is absolutely a fantasy, because it deals with the bodies in a different way.

  Marina Abramovic

  Fashion, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you train as a dancer, you understand you have to work exceptionally hard. I think dancers are the hardest - working people in show business. You have to push your body beyond where you thought it could go. It's athleticism. Perfection doesn't exist, but with classical ballet, there is an ideal, and I got obsessed with that ideal. In some ways, it was problematic because I don't have an ideal ballet body, but the discipline is what I carry with me to this day. That's my park, the discipline of dancing.

  Laverne Cox

  Thinking, Perfection, Discipline

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed to be professional, and a lot of the professors and teachers there were drawn to me and thought that I could become a professional ballerina.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Teacher, New York, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The rumor is that when I was younger, I didn't like to sweat and I didn't like to run, and both of those things are kind of important in tennis. I was introduced to a lot of sports as a child: I did gymnastics, figure skating, tennis and golf, and I dabbled a little bit in ballet. I just never fell in love with tennis the way I did with golf.

  Jessica Korda

  Sports, Running, Children

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• I have too much respect for ballet to dare practice it. I did ask ballerina Megan LeCrone to teach me jetés. She said that was impossible but did observe that I have great feet.

  Elad Lassry

  Impossible, Ballerina, Dare

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art is a funny thing. It's a communicative medium. It really is, and it works outside of literature, the movies, stage, it has its own realm. It's like when you say "The Arts," those are all the arts, dance, theater, ballet. So within that set of areas of expression, we have visual art and it is visual and it's about looking at something and seeing it in the light with our eyes, maybe touching it or not touching it, or wanting to touch it, not being able to touch it.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Art, Eye, Work Out

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.

  Guy Maddin

  Moving, Dancer, Taught

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Realization that i couldn't be a ballet dancer was a blessing in disguise because that was the first time I felt like I stepped into adulthood. I realized, Okay, this is not going to work out. It was frustrating for about a year because I didn't know what to do with the creativity and the discipline that dancing had instilled in me from a very young age. But then I moved to Paris to model, and that was my cultural awakening. Now, I think dancing has been the biggest thing in my life, much more so than modeling, and it still helps me enormously in my work.

  Diane Kruger

  Creativity, Thinking, Blessing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I took ballet for two years in high school and then in college on and off, and I went back into class. I'm nowhere near good enough to be a professional, but it's great to be in that environment. The discipline is so impressive.

  Peter Vack

  School, College, Discipline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.

  Raf Simons

  Fashion, Composer

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful thing because it opens the door to a life-long experience, a life-long enjoyment.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Art, Children, Doors

  Source: www.altblackpool.co.uk

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• I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

  Fred Astaire

  Games, Training

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

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• The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no' - they may not be smart enough to say 'yes.'

  Keith Olbermann

  Jobs, Smart, People

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• So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

  Sutton Foster

  People, Dancer, Training

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• He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.

  Avril Lavigne

  Quality, Punk

  Song: Sk8er Boi, Album: Let Go, 2002

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• I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Two, Eight, Dancer

  "Jessica Brown Findlay's Sybil Liberties". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2012.

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• You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Dancer, Matter, Realizing

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• In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.

  Julia Jones

  Pain, Emotional, Thinking

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

  Judith Jamison

  Class, Age, Tudors

  "Portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2007.

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• Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

  Karlie Kloss

  Movement, Taught

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• I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

  Karlie Kloss

  Girl, Thinking, Periods

  "Women We Love of Instagram: Karlie Kloss". www.esquire.com. August 3, 2015.

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• Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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• In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

  Alexander Dale Oen

  Swimming, Dancer, Movement

  "With Alexander Dale Oen's sudden death, Norway lost a hero" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

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