Ballet Quotes
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My mum sent me to ballet from the age of five, not because I was that into it but because I had really knock knees.
Darcey Bussell
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Russian culture is multifaceted and diverse. So if you want to understand, to feel Russia, then of course you need to read books, Tolstoy and Chekhov and Gogol and others. Listen to music. Tchaikovsky. Watch our classical ballet. But the most important thing is that you need to talk with people.
Vladimir Putin
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
Twyla Tharp
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Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.
Bowie Kuhn
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At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.
Maria Karnilova
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Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the environmental and social, collaborating with ballet companies to score a show, the bike tour - all of that stuff comes together through community building with music.
Ben Sollee
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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Kids are always told that they can be anything that they want. But what if you want to be a ballerina, and you're terrible at ballet? Or what if you're gifted at ballet, but you don't like doing it?
Lisa Graff
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I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move.
Dorothy Hamill
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You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.
Misty Copeland
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I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.
Essence Atkins
