Ballet Quotes
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I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
Steve Martin
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In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.
Vincente Minnelli
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I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.
Michael Angarano
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With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
Marina Abramovic
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Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.
Natalie Portman
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I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.
Miranda Otto
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When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.
Summer Glau
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I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
Michael Ealy
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It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance or downtown dance, ballet is formalized, and there's something orthodox about it that I like. I like that there's less emphasis on subversion and innovation. I actually think that my musical vernacular or my musical voice is also less inclined toward innovation and subversion. I think I'm a traditionalist.
Sufjan Stevens
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Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful thing because it opens the door to a life-long experience, a life-long enjoyment.
Michael Morpurgo
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I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.
Suzanne Farrell
