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What a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad. The performances of horse or man so treated would seem to be displays of clumsy gestures rather than of grace and beauty. What we need is that the horse should of his own accord exhibit his finest airs and paces at set signals. ~ Temple Grandin
Ballet Dancer quotes by Temple Grandin
Like a ballet dancer, she keeps me on my toes. This dance we're doing, it keeps me so fit I know she's a perfect fit for me. ~ Jarod Kintz
Ballet Dancer quotes by Jarod Kintz
It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays. ~ Brian Dennehy
Ballet Dancer quotes by Brian Dennehy
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape. ~ W. H. Auden
Ballet Dancer quotes by W. H. Auden
I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum had to break it to me that not only was he gay, but he was dead. ~ Jessica Brown Findlay
Ballet Dancer quotes by Jessica Brown Findlay
I'm never going to get married. I'm going to be a ballet-dancer. But don't tell anybody. ~ Leo Tolstoy
Ballet Dancer quotes by Leo Tolstoy
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire. ~ Angelina Jolie
Ballet Dancer quotes by Angelina Jolie
I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor. ~ Lea Thompson
Ballet Dancer quotes by Lea Thompson
I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer. ~ Darren Aronofsky
Ballet Dancer quotes by Darren Aronofsky
I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around. ~ Kevin McKenzie
Ballet Dancer quotes by Kevin McKenzie
If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that. ~ Sierra McCormick
Ballet Dancer quotes by Sierra McCormick
In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction. ~ Alexander Dale Oen
Ballet Dancer quotes by Alexander Dale Oen
I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back ... ~ Robert Helpmann
Ballet Dancer quotes by Robert Helpmann
The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement. ~ Vera Caspary
Ballet Dancer quotes by Vera Caspary
When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier. ~ Craig Claiborne
Ballet Dancer quotes by Craig Claiborne
Did any of you ever see Doctor Tetrazzini perform? I say perform advisedly because his operations were performances. He would start by throwing a scalpel across the room into the patient and then make his entrance as a ballet dancer. His speed was incredible: "I don't give them time to die", he would say. Tumors put him in a frenzy of rage. "Fucking undisciplined cells!" he would snarl, advancing on the tumor like a knife-fighter. ~ William S. Burroughs
Ballet Dancer quotes by William S. Burroughs
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. ~ Penelope Cruz
Ballet Dancer quotes by Penelope Cruz
To quote a dictum of Simon, what a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad. ~ Xenophon
Ballet Dancer quotes by Xenophon
One day a man came into the bar and ordered a pint and a pousse-cafe, adding "for our lass" in case I thought he was a ballet dancer or something. ~ Harry Pearson
Ballet Dancer quotes by Harry Pearson
I was a ballet dancer for so long, but when I realized I had reached my limit and that I couldn't go any further I knew I wanted to pursue acting. That's one thing you don't use as a dancer - your voice. And the one thing I use most in my life is my voice so it's wonderful to get to express myself artistically through the biggest instrument I use. ~ Zoe Saldana
Ballet Dancer quotes by Zoe Saldana
I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18. ~ Jessica Brown Findlay
Ballet Dancer quotes by Jessica Brown Findlay
Real men don't lift weights, they lift women. ~ Every Male Ballet Dancer
Ballet Dancer quotes by Every Male Ballet Dancer
I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer. ~ Laura Slade Wiggins
Ballet Dancer quotes by Laura Slade Wiggins
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. ~ Isadora Duncan
Ballet Dancer quotes by Isadora Duncan
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another. ~ Jennifer Garner
Ballet Dancer quotes by Jennifer Garner
When you see the extent to which people try, like the tremors of a ballet dancer, or the intensity of a pianist, or a mural containing the details of tiny little people making up the background-- you see the vulnerable extension of our private selves. There is an element inside us and it wavers between beauty and madness. You know it when you see it, like a hyperactive atom bouncing in a tube. It is like trying, really trying, and when we do, we are in our most honest forms. When we reach, we expose the contents of the human spirit. The more often we see it spill, the more encouraged we are to go further. And we can go further than others, in joyous competition. After all, it is called the human race, no? ~ Karl Kristian Flores
Ballet Dancer quotes by Karl Kristian Flores
Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.' ~ Robert Gottlieb
Ballet Dancer quotes by Robert Gottlieb
Ballet is only good when it is great. ~ Arlene Croce
Ballet Dancer quotes by Arlene Croce
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue. ~ Anais Nin
Ballet Dancer quotes by Anais Nin
I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer. ~ Gia Coppola
Ballet Dancer quotes by Gia Coppola
I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout. ~ Sergio Martinez
Ballet Dancer quotes by Sergio Martinez
I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do. ~ Tim Matheson
Ballet Dancer quotes by Tim Matheson
I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines. ~ Rod Milburn
Ballet Dancer quotes by Rod Milburn
I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment. ~ Neil Patrick Harris
Ballet Dancer quotes by Neil Patrick Harris
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche. ~ Elizabeth Olsen
Ballet Dancer quotes by Elizabeth Olsen
I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started. ~ Diane Kruger
Ballet Dancer quotes by Diane Kruger
My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death. ~ Carmen Dell'Orefice
Ballet Dancer quotes by Carmen Dell'Orefice
Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art. ~ Dani Shapiro
Ballet Dancer quotes by Dani Shapiro
That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness. ~ Tana French
Ballet Dancer quotes by Tana French
Yet for a moment it seemed to him that the men who had dragged marble from Italy and porphyry from Portugal, who had ransacked the jungle for its rarest woods and paid their millions to build this opulent and fantastical theatre, had done so in order that a young girl with loose brown hair should move across its stage, drawing her future from its empty air. ~ Eva Ibbotson
Ballet Dancer quotes by Eva Ibbotson
I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, I took my first yoga class in 1980 and knew from the start that it would be a lifelong passion. ~ Rodney Yee
Ballet Dancer quotes by Rodney Yee
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
Ballet Dancer quotes by Sutton Foster
You? You're no more a detective than I am a ballet dancer," he exclaimed.

"I'd like to see you in tights and a tutu. ~ Sara Paretsky
Ballet Dancer quotes by Sara Paretsky
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me. ~ Diane Kruger
Ballet Dancer quotes by Diane Kruger
The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air. ~ Lincoln Kirstein
Ballet Dancer quotes by Lincoln Kirstein
The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts. ~ Ellen Goodman
Ballet Dancer quotes by Ellen Goodman
In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer. ~ Amanda Schull
Ballet Dancer quotes by Amanda Schull
Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player. ~ Katherine McNamara
Ballet Dancer quotes by Katherine McNamara
I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear, when I was 12, that my body wasn't going to be right. That's always a heartbreaking moment because there's nothing you can do about that. Your body is just not right. You don't have enough turnout. You're not built properly. ~ Greta Gerwig
Ballet Dancer quotes by Greta Gerwig
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer. ~ Bebe Neuwirth
Ballet Dancer quotes by Bebe Neuwirth
'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training. ~ Benjamin Millepied
Ballet Dancer quotes by Benjamin Millepied
...It Isn't actually much of an encouragement to me to read the stories about Jesus. I might as well take encouragement from watching a great athlete run a four-minute mile. Sure, it's a fine sight, but at my age and with my weight I would be lucky to do a mile in 10 minutes, let alone four. I can watch a ballet dancer on stage with great delight, not because I can copy him, but precisely because I know I can't. ~ N. T. Wright
Ballet Dancer quotes by N. T. Wright
I wanted to be a male ballet dancer. ~ Scott Thompson
Ballet Dancer quotes by Scott Thompson
I always wanted to devote a certain part of my life to dance - my true being is to be a dancer. ~ Nita Ambani
Ballet Dancer quotes by Nita Ambani
Thus, with the good we have the bad: we have the opposed movements of a dancer guided by one artistic plan; we recognize in his steps the good as against the bad, and see that in the opposition lies the merit of the design. ~ Plotinus
Ballet Dancer quotes by Plotinus
Embrace your multiple personalities.

As a kid, I went back and forth between being a metalhead and a Latin dancer. A strange combination? Yes, but it showed me that I should never let one single thing define who I am. I am many things, many voices, many personalities. I try to embrace them rather than suppress them. There's a time to be disciplined and there's a time to let go. There's a time to crowd-surf and a time to practice. The more variety in your life, the more color.
Sometimes I think we give ourselves a label: "I'm an accountant." Or "I'm a mom." Or "I'm a schoolteacher." That isn't all of you, just like dancing wasn't--and still isn't--all of me. Give yourself permission to embrace all the facets of you; it's what makes you unique and special. We are who we tell ourselves we are. ~ Derek Hough
Ballet Dancer quotes by Derek Hough
How can men be such lummoxes, such wads of chewing gum on our ballet slippers and still feel so good? ~ Tom Robbins
Ballet Dancer quotes by Tom Robbins
I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age. ~ Jean-Georges Noverre
Ballet Dancer quotes by Jean-Georges Noverre
After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music. ~ Suzanne Farrell
Ballet Dancer quotes by Suzanne Farrell
As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move. ~ Carmen Electra
Ballet Dancer quotes by Carmen Electra
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. ~ Lord Chesterfield
Ballet Dancer quotes by Lord Chesterfield
Football is the ballet of the masses. ~ Dmitri Shostakovich
Ballet Dancer quotes by Dmitri Shostakovich
I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal. ~ Misty Copeland
Ballet Dancer quotes by Misty Copeland
No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her. ~ Amish Tripathi
Ballet Dancer quotes by Amish Tripathi
This may sound weird but I miss traveling. I miss the road, seeing different places and being with the dancers and having fun. That feeling of being on the stage, knowing it's your best
I love that. I needed a break. I needed to be hungry again. ~ Britney Spears
Ballet Dancer quotes by Britney Spears
Dancing is a sweat job. ~ Fred Astaire
Ballet Dancer quotes by Fred Astaire
As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people. ~ Phyllis Smith
Ballet Dancer quotes by Phyllis Smith
I know how it is with women. They might love you, but that doesn't mean they won't eat you, because they will, especially when there's another woman involved. ~ Jack Dancer
Ballet Dancer quotes by Jack Dancer
There are places in the world where real life is still happening, far away from here, in a pre-Hitler Europe, where hundreds of lights are lit every evening, ladies and gentlemen gather to drink coffee with cream in oak-panelled rooms, or sit comfortably in splendid coffee-houses under gilt chandeliers, stroll arm in arm to the opera or the ballet, observe from close-up the lives of great artists, passionate love affairs, broken hearts, the painter's girlfriend falling in love with his best friend the composer, and going out at midnight bareheaded in the rain to stand alone on the ancient bridge whose reflection trembles in the river. * ~ Amos Oz
Ballet Dancer quotes by Amos Oz
My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer. ~ Ansel Elgort
Ballet Dancer quotes by Ansel Elgort
Abraham Lincoln wasn't much of a dancer. "Miss Todd, I should like to dance with you in the worst way," he told his future wife. Miss Todd later said to a friend, "He certainly did."

"John Quincy Adams was a first-rate swimmer. Once when he was skinny-dipping in the Potomac River, a women reporter snatched his clothes and sat on them until he gave her an interview."

"(Andrew Johnson couldn't read until he was fourteen! He didn't learn to write until after he was married!) ~ Judith St. George
Ballet Dancer quotes by Judith St. George
I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. ~ Amanda Seyfried
Ballet Dancer quotes by Amanda Seyfried
Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other. ~ George Sava
Ballet Dancer quotes by George Sava
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity. ~ Jean-Georges Noverre
Ballet Dancer quotes by Jean-Georges Noverre
You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life. ~ Bebe
Ballet Dancer quotes by Bebe
Over decades that seem but a moment in time, lines of scarlet figures shuttled among the sorghum stalks to weave a vast human tapestry. They killed, they looted, and they defended their country in a valiant, stirring ballet that makes us unfilial descendants who now occupy the land pale by comparison. ~ Mo Yan
Ballet Dancer quotes by Mo Yan
The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep. ~ Arthur Symons
Ballet Dancer quotes by Arthur Symons
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Ballet Dancer quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Dance, dance, dance till you drop. ~ W. H. Auden
Ballet Dancer quotes by W. H. Auden
I had been working predominantly and steadily as a dancer, so after awhile, you don't have to audition. I was just in that world, and I had certain goals I wanted to reach, but I definitely always wanted to keep going and challenge myself and become an actor. ~ Kenny Wormald
Ballet Dancer quotes by Kenny Wormald
Ballet.something pure in this crazy world ~ Misty Copeland
Ballet Dancer quotes by Misty Copeland
I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul ~ Patrick Swayze
Ballet Dancer quotes by Patrick Swayze
Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!'
On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!' ~ Clement Clarke Moore
Ballet Dancer quotes by Clement Clarke Moore
It takes me about twenty seconds to forget about the staring faces and all that shiny, pulled-back hair and which of the girls on the bleachers may or may not be a better dancer than I am and the fact that I'm twice as big as anyone in this room. After that first thirty seconds, I disappear into the song. I become one with the music, one with the dance. ~ Jennifer Niven
Ballet Dancer quotes by Jennifer Niven
When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.' ~ Damian Woetzel
Ballet Dancer quotes by Damian Woetzel
Ballet is the fairies baseball. ~ Oscar Levant
Ballet Dancer quotes by Oscar Levant
People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through ... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection. ~ Laurieann Gibson
Ballet Dancer quotes by Laurieann Gibson
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less. ~ Martha Graham
Ballet Dancer quotes by Martha Graham
I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried. ~ Keke Palmer
Ballet Dancer quotes by Keke Palmer
You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls? ~ Greg Ray
Ballet Dancer quotes by Greg Ray
Her scapulae were delicate wings; her skull was a psalm to the elegant dancer waiting beneath the flesh of all who walked the earth. ~ Seanan McGuire
Ballet Dancer quotes by Seanan McGuire
I always thought I was going to be a dancer and then fashion kind of took over. ~ Monique Lhuillier
Ballet Dancer quotes by Monique Lhuillier
There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat. ~ Cam Newton
Ballet Dancer quotes by Cam Newton
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing. ~ Lincoln Kirstein
Ballet Dancer quotes by Lincoln Kirstein
I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels! ~ Ginger Rogers
Ballet Dancer quotes by Ginger Rogers
I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City. ~ Misty Copeland
Ballet Dancer quotes by Misty Copeland
I tell you this, as war becomes
dishonored and its nobility called into question those honorable men who recognize the sanctity of blood will become excluded from the dance, which is the warrior's right, and thereby will the dance become a false dance and the dancers false dancers. And yet there be one there always who is a true dancer and can you guess who that might be?
You ain't nothing. ~ Cormac McCarthy
Ballet Dancer quotes by Cormac McCarthy
I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well. ~ Sutton Foster
Ballet Dancer quotes by Sutton Foster
When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful. ~ Barry Zito
Ballet Dancer quotes by Barry Zito
It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision. ~ Ayn Rand
Ballet Dancer quotes by Ayn Rand
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