Ballet Quote by John Guare Download Open image “I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.” — John Guare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballet Ballet Yankees Baseball Cities George Steinbrenner New york New york city Thinking Yankees Yankees George York City
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine. — Vincente Minnelli Copy Share Image
I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Ballet is a closed world and very rigid; MGM was a fairyland. You'd walk down the lot, seeing all these fabulous movies being made… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. — John Guare Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees. — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that.… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure. — John Guare Copy Share Image
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you… — John Guare Copy Share Image
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”. — John Guare Copy Share Image
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first… — John Guare Copy Share Image
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I… — John Guare Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Copy Share Image
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B. — John Guare Copy Share Image
I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can account for… — John Guare Copy Share Image
“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others joy through… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
