"In ballet a complicated story is impossible to……" — George Balanchine
"In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms."
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George Balanchine
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32 Quotes by George Balanchine
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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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I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the…
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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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More Ballet Quotes
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one of 467 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of…
— Fred Astaire
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
— George Balanchine
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
— George Balanchine
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No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love…
— Jeff Bridges
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You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
— Deborah Bull
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Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV…
— Meg Cabot
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
— Thomas Carlyle
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