Ballet quotes

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◆ Ballet class is like Life Lessons 101. You learn some of life's most important lessons here that you will carry with you forever.

- Joanne H Morscher100

◆ Letting go of perfectionism, so ingrained in the nature of a ballet dancer, can be the most difficult thing.

- 99

◆ The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual.

- Marsha B Siegel99

◆ What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

- Edward Villella99

◆ If it were not for dreams there would not be such a thing as ballet, the cruelest of the performing arts.

- 99

◆ Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

- Shana Alexander99

◆ Men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

- Robin Williams99

◆ My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.

- Will Kemp99

◆ One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

- Clive Barnes99

◆ When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

- Tommy Lee99

◆ A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

- Twyla Tharp99

◆ Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

- Alexander Pushkin99

◆ Ballet is the one form of theater where nobody speaks a foolish word all evening nobody on the stage at least.

- Edwin Denby99

◆ You don't have to know about ballet to enjoy it, all you have to do is look at it.

- Edwin Denby99

◆ Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!

- Nan Keating99