"I don't have a past. I have a……" — George Balanchine
"I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time."
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George Balanchine
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32 Quotes by George Balanchine
George Balanchine has 32 quotes on this site.
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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
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One is born to be a great dancer.
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
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We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that…
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The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.
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I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.
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They are poets of gesture.
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Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.
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Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with…
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See the music, hear the dance.
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Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are…
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I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance
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More Continuous Quotes
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one of 535 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all…
— Teresa of Avila
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I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
— David Bailey
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was…
— Beck
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
— Aneurin Bevan
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate…
— David Bohm
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever.…
— Lord Byron
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
— Winston Churchill
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In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely…
— Karl Landsteiner
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He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and…
— Jimmy Cannon
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Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only…
— Unknown Author
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Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
— Brian Tracy
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