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Ballet Master Inspirational Quotes (292)

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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
Martha Graham
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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
Martha Graham
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I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
Martha Graham
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What people will do to get away from boredom!
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
Agnes de Mille
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A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.
Natalia Makarova
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Dance in the body you have.
Agnes de Mille
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People dance at any age.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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See the music, hear the dance.
George Balanchine
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This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.
Alicia Alonso
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When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.
Benjamin Millepied
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I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.
Martha Graham
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
Natalia Makarova
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All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.
Ninette de Valois
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
Martha Graham
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You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.
Martha Graham
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You live as long as you dance.
Rudolf Nureyev
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The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham
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The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
August Bournonville
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You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
Ninette de Valois
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It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
Martha Graham
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In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
George Balanchine
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