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Dance as if serendipity is your partner, every irreplaceable moment an intricate step inviting vision seconded only by intuition.
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Lena Grier
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I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
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Marie Windsor
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Wrestling is ballet with violence.
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Jesse Ventura
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Classical ballet will never die.
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Ninette Valois
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There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.
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Ninette Valois
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I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
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Janine Turner
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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.
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Michelle Trachtenberg
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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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Twyla Tharp
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I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
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Lynn Swann
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I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
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Sarah Sutton
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You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
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Robert Smith
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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Jaclyn Smith
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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.
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Michelle Shocked
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I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.
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Amanda Seyfried
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I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
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Rita Rudner
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Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
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Andy Rooney
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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.
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Claiborne Pell
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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Camille Paglia
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I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.
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Maureen O'Hara
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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Harold Nicholas
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In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.
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Vincente Minnelli
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I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.
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Juliet Mills
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Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
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Henry Mayhew
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I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.
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Elle Macpherson
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I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.
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Sanaa Lathan
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
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Nastassja Kinski
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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.
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William Kempe
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When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
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Angelina Jolie
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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.
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Shuler Hensley
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I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.
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Neil Harris
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God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
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Julie Harris
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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
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John Guare
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And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
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John Guare
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Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
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John Guare
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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
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John Guare
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I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.
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John Guare
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The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.
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John Guare
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The New York City 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.
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John Guare
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I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
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John Guare
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I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
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Jennifer Garner
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There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.
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Albert Finney
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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.
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Suzanne Farrell
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In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
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Suzanne Farrell
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The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.
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Suzanne Farrell
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I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.
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Carmen Electra
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I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.
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Janice Dickinson
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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
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Quentin Crisp
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I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.
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Sasha Cohen
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I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.
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Leslie Caron
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Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
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Robert Caro
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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.
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Robert Caro
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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.
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Robert Caro
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I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
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Robert Caro
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Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
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Robert Caro
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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.
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Robert Caro
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I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
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Robert Caro
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The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
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Vanessa Carlton
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Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
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Neve Campbell
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Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.
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Neve Campbell
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I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.
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Deborah Bull
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Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.
Author:
Deborah Bull
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You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
Author:
Deborah Bull
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
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Ritchie Blackmore
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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.
Author:
Clive Barnes
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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
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George Balanchine
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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.
Author:
George Balanchine
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In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
Author:
George Balanchine
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I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
Author:
Oksana Baiul
