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Ballet Master Inspirational Quotes (292)

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I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.
Martha Graham
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Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.
Martha Graham
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When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.
Rudolf Nureyev
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Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.
George Balanchine
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It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
Matthew Bourne
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David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.
Agrippina Vaganova
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I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I wish I was more adventurous.
Matthew Bourne
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The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.
Jean-Georges Noverre
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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
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You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
Natalia Makarova
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I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows
Paul Taylor
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
Martha Graham
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I told you to sell it, not give it away.
Jerome Robbins
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Working is living to me.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
Agnes de Mille
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
Agnes de Mille
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Theater used to be a verb it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.
Martha Graham
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What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The woman's function is to fascinate men.
George Balanchine
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
Agnes de Mille
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
Martha Graham
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Acting is not my language at all.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.
Martha Graham
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