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Dance Quotes by Misty Copeland
- My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't…
- Everything I was being shown was ABT, so I grew up watching these videos of [Mikhail] Baryshnikov, Gelsey [Kirkland] and Paloma [Herrera]. Paloma and Angel…
- I'm definitely very careful about the things that I want to be a part of, but it's also important for me to get dance out…
- 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…
- Those people that don't see the power in art maybe have never been a part of an art, in a real way. To experience it,…
- When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and…
- 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…
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- 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
- Disco is just jitterbug. — Fred Astaire
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
- 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
- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
- I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov