"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of……" — Michelle Shocked
"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing."
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27 Quotes by Michelle Shocked
Michelle Shocked has 27 quotes on this site.
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Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all
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Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy…
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I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end…
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As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up…
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"What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?" You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah,…
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When I grow up I want to be an old woman.
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Making music should not be left to the professionals.
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I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the…
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I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the…
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I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
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People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should…
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We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.
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More Ballet Quotes
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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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