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Ballet Quotes by Misty Copeland
- Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in.
- Ballet.something pure in this crazy world
- I want to share the ballet world with everyone.
- Just as a child, before I ever knew what ballet was, there was something in me where I was always searching for something structured, something…
- I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today,…
- To have a platform like So You Think You Can Dance, where you're reaching this audience that's been created over the 10 years that they've…
- Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what…
- I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of…
- I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely…
- Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try to push diversity,…
- Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was…
- I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.
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