Ballet Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Years, Dancing

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• The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

  Bill Irwin

  Dance, Powerful, Dancing

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• Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Technique, Easy

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

  Sylvie Guillem

  Dance, Dancing, Perfection

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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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• It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Doe, Denial

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• I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

  Vin Diesel

  Brother, Children, Lunch

  "Vin Diesel: I Want To Be A Good Dad". "Parade" Interview, parade.com. August 25, 2008.

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• Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Motivational, Dance, Running

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

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• Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Believe, Walks

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• Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.

  Joel Salatin

  Moving, Animal, Drug

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• Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate

  Matsuo Basho

  Butterfly, Air, White

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• I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

  Richard Kadrey

  World, Slippers, Steel

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, Book 1)”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• He was a boy, she was a girl,
  Can I make it any more obvious?
  He was a punk, she did ballet,
  What more can I say?
  He wanted her, she'd never tell,
  But secretly she wanted him as well.

  Avril Lavigne

  Girl, Boys, Punk

  "Song: 'Sk8er Boi'". 2007.

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• …* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.

  Sylvia Plath

  Art, Hate, Book

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• Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer, though." Tod laughed out loud and I groaned. "Sophie takes ballet and jazz. She's not a pole dancer." "There's more money in pole dancing," Sabine insisted.

  Rachel Vincent

  Dancing, Dancer, Sophie

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.526, Harlequin

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• So...I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than ... I don't know,more than they should. And I get totally sucked in by this ridiculous, tiny fur coat. The kind of coat a baby might need to go to the ballet. In Moscow. In 1918. To match her tiny pearls.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Baby, Sweaters, Needs

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space, of discovering new dimensions while still remaining in touch with your body. When you dance, the spiritual world and the real world manage to coexist quite happily. I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Real, Thinking

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• Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Twenties, Young

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• I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Running, Strong Women

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• If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

  Bob Fosse

  Dance, Thinking, Lunch

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• It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

  Darcey Bussell

  Life, Dance, Selfish

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