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ballet Quotes and Quotations
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. George Balanchine | top
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One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. Clive Barnes | top
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. Ritchie Blackmore | top
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Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet. Deborah Bull | top
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You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. Deborah Bull | top
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Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that. Robert Caro | top
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I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience. Robert Caro | top
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I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why. Robert Caro | top
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The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage. Robert Caro | top
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The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15. Robert Caro | top
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The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations. Robert Caro | top
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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 | top
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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs. John Guare | top
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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. John Guare | top
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I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. John Guare | top
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My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice. Shuler Hensley | top
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When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. Angelina Jolie | top
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My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. William Kempe | top
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I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. Elle Macpherson | top
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I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. Rita Rudner | top
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My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing. Michelle Shocked | top
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When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward. Andrea Thompson | top
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I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day. Michelle Trachtenberg | top
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Classical ballet will never die. Ninette de Valois | top
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Wrestling is ballet with violence. Jesse Ventura | top