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Ballet Dancer Inspirational Quotes (1507)

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There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?
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One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.
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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.
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I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
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A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
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Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I’ve found the answer in the simple file box.
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Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
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Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.
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Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
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This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
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I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
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There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
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Perfect practice makes perfect.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.
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To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.
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You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.
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