Ballet Quotes
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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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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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.
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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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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 was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
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I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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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 did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.
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Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.
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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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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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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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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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Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car every day in my senior year. I went to ballet. I was a ballerina, so I was very focused on that. You kind of have to be. That was two-thirds of my week, going to ballet class.
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I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it to be my entire life forever. And then it was this very specific life, and I wanted to learn about other things. So I modeled to fill the time because dancing was very much a job, even when I was 14 years old.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
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Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverdance.' It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland.
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I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
