Ballet Quotes
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It's a normal part of the culture of ballet to go to a nutritionist in your first few weeks. They write down everything you eat and use a little roller that pinches you to measure the fat all over your body. Then, every semester, you get a letter saying either you're too thin, or you're OK, or you're overweight.
Margaret Qualley -
If they opened things up and I could build a luxury condominium in Vedado, I would sell them in two hours here in Miami. Cubans in Miami would be the first to buy. In Miami, 80 percent of the people we sell to are foreigners. Havana is a city very similar to Miami... There's good music, good theater, good ballet.
Jorge M. Perez
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Yeah, I shoot. I shot with my dad a little bit when I was little. He was a Marine, so it wasn't like he would take me to the ballet. We would go to a shooting range. It was the only thing he knew to teach his little girl how to do.
Jill Wagner -
Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!
Ronan Keating Boyzone -
I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
Oksana Baiul -
For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
Ballet needs figures that people can recognize and relate to. People don't know ballet dancers as well as they know other artists.
David Hallberg -
I try and avoid cardio because it makes me lose a lot of weight. Instead, I do resistance training, model fit workouts, and ballet.
Sara Sampaio
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Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.
Patricia McBride -
You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
Deborah Bull -
I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
Carine Roitfeld -
If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world.
Sami Gayle -
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
Natalia Makarova -
Classical ballet will never die.
Ninette de Valois
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At age 10, I was better at ballet than I think I will ever be at any physical activity for the rest of my life.
Katie Findlay -
I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
D. B. Sweeney -
Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.
Jennifer Ellison -
Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.
Christian Lacroix -
Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.
Katherine McNamara -
Everything is not beautiful at the ballet. It's tough.
Darcey Bussell
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Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement
Aamir Khan -
I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
Candice Swanepoel -
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
Carine Roitfeld -
Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.
Anna Paskevska