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  Endurance is patience concentrated.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Patience, Perseverance

  "One More Step the 638 Best Quotes for the Runner: Motivation for the Next Step". Book by Randy L. Thurman, p. 81, en.wikiquote.org. July 3, 2012.

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• When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Eye, Light, Black

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

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• I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Believe, Practice

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• I liked the structure of ballet.

  Wendy Whelan

  Structure

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• I saw a spider, I didn't scream 'Cause I can belch the alphabet Just double dog dare me And I chose guitar over ballet
  And I tape these suckers down 'Cause they just get in my way The way you look at me Is kind of like a little sister
  You high five your goodbyes And it leaves me nothing but blisters So I don't want to be one of the boys.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Goodbye, Dog

  "Song: "One of the Boys"". June 17, 2008.

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• The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

  Siobhan Davies

  Dance, Ideas, Needs

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• Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Dance, Pain, Light

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• To dance, put your hand on your heart and listen to the sound of your soul.

  Eugene Louis Faccuito

  Dance, Heart, Hands

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• The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

  Douglas Adams

  Car, Toasters, Sandwiches

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.74, Pan Macmillan

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• Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Dance, Dancing, Perfection

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• Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Learning, Way

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• If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.

  Arlene Croce

  Dance, Years, Two

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• People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

  Susan Jaffe

  Dance, Cutting, Blood

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• Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

  La Meri

  Inspirational, Dance, Expression

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• Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

  Steve Sabol

  Movie, Football, Games

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

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• The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Attitude, Self Esteem

  "Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 235), 1992.

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• Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

  Havelock Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

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• The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Steps, Problem

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• The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

  John Green

  Writing, Funny Things, Dancing

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• Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Sleep, Frustration

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Ballet Class, Discipline

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• Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

  Anais Nin

  Dancer, Vehemence, Crash

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• I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Passion, Pleasure, Yeah

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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