"Technique is what you fall back on when……" — Rudolf Nureyev

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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
• I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams
• Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
• The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the… — George Balanchine
• No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore
• You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love… — Jeff Bridges
• You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. — Deborah Bull
• Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV… — Meg Cabot
• Endurance is patience concentrated. — Thomas Carlyle

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