Ballet Quotes
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.
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I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.
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The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
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My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.
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I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.
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I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions.
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Before a show, I usually give myself two-and-a-half hours to get ready. I prepare my shoes first. New ballet pumps can sound like tap shoes. You have to take the noise out of them by hitting them against stone. It takes half an hour to do each pair, and I can go through three pairs in one night.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.
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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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I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.
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The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
