Quotes with ballet-dancers

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  • Karl Marx Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Benjamin Millepied 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Cab Calloway Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Bill Dedman Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • C. L. R. James Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
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    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Andy Rooney Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Martha Graham Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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  • Walt Whitman I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Anton Chekhov I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Bebe Neuwirth I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Agnes de Mille Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Benjamin Millepied Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Bar Paly My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.
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  • Claiborne Pell People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.
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  • Isadora Duncan The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Agnes de Mille The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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