Quotes with ballet

  • I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

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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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  • 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.
    Beyond a Boundary
    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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  • 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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  • 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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