Ballet Quotes
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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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I took tap and ballet, which likely contributed to my sense of rhythm and showmanship. I love creating music that gets people moving together, free of inhibitions.
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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 was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest of my class had started aged 11, so I'd missed two years and was really far behind.
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
Nastassja Kinski -
I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
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I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all out with ballet.
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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 wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.
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Wrestling is ballet with violence.
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The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.
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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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For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of the story.
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I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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My first mentor and inspiration was my Irish Dancing teacher Patricia Mulholland. She created her own form of dance known as Irish ballet and created stage productions of old Irish myths and legends. They were my first experiences on stage. She told my mum I was destined for the stage, and I took that as my cue.
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I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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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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Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement
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I try and avoid cardio because it makes me lose a lot of weight. Instead, I do resistance training, model fit workouts, and ballet.
