Ballet Quote by Robert Caro Download Open image “I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.” — Robert Caro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballet Dance Effort Experts Made
I didn't care how much work it would take, and I didn't see the time invested as a waste or like I was missing… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Oh, I could have done more. I refused a lot of ballets. I said, 'No way, no way I'm going to do that.' — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did. — Harold Nicholas Copy Share Image
I'd always been one of the best in my gymnastics school, so I transferred to trying to be the best dancer, without knowing anything… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself. — Antony Tudor Copy Share Image
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didnt do them myself. — Antony Tudor Copy Share Image
Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I just realized I wanted to do more than ballet. I was offered an apprenticeship, so I was about to join a company and… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do. — Robert Caro 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
