Ballet Quotes
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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.
Felicity Jones
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The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.
Mario Cuomo
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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.
Darcey Bussell
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The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
Manu Bennett
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
Nastassja Kinski
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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.
Laverne Cox
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My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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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.
Laura Donnelly
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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.
Damian Woetzel
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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.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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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.
Bria Skonberg
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
Rachel Stevens
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Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Jesse Ventura
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
D. B. Sweeney
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I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
Adam Garcia
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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.
Darcey Bussell
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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.
Jennifer Grey
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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.
Laura Donnelly
