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Ballet Quotes by John Guare
- And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life…
- The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because…
- Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's…
- All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
- And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
- However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
- Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
- I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
- I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that…
- The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way…
More Ballet Quotes
- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's… — Fred Astaire
- I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams
- Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore
- You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. — Jeff Bridges
- You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. — Deborah Bull
- Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying… — Meg Cabot
- Endurance is patience concentrated. — Thomas Carlyle