Ballet Quotes
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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.'
Damian Woetzel
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I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.
Laura Slade Wiggins
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I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.
Keke Palmer
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The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
Vanessa Carlton
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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.
Darcey Bussell
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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.
Chris Messina
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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.
Maddie Ziegler
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
Jaclyn Smith
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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.
Rachel Corrie
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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.
Karen Kain
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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.
Jillian Rose Reed
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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.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
Zoe Saldana
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
Carla Korbes
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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.
Carla Korbes
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I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.
Vincent Cassel
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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.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
Harold Nicholas
