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He dances well to whom Fortune pipes. — John Ray

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. — Julia Child

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer. — Bebe Neuwirth

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer. — Lily Rabe

I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position. — Carine Roitfeld

So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet. — Alyssa Day

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets. — Misty Copeland

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know. — Mark Morris

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be. — Candice Swanepoel

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. — Carine Roitfeld

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging. — Placido Domingo

Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on. — Joan Chen

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams

Sweetheart, wherever you are, that's where I'll be. Forever. — Samantha Chase

I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It's all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn't have the Chanel butterfly clip everyone else did. — Sarah Hay

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company. — Michael Ealy

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself. — Joseph Altuzarra

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap. — Emily VanCamp

I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me. — Solange Knowles

I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz ... I'm very flexible. — Michael Angarano

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful. — Michael Gambon

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. — Jeff Bridges

I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn't very good, but it's that thing where little girls always try ballet, or whatever. — Cat Deeley

I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie. — Alicia Vikander

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet's image of man. — Ayn Rand

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it. — Ansel Elgort

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer. — Benjamin Millepied

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time. — Deborah Bull

I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed. — Carla Korbes

I can see why they named that ballet the Nutcracker. It's gotta hurt having 'em crushed in something that tight. — Mark A. Cooper

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. — Ian McKellen

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet. — Steven Morrissey

My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class. — Sarah Parish

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education. — Misty Copeland

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music. — Tinashe

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more. — Darcey Bussell

What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then ... it's gone. — Terry Teachout

Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry. — Nina Ananiashvili

Ballet is merely a new rationalization of society's instinctive movement towards self-destruction. A dance of death for the Gadarene swine. — Eric Ambler

The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing. — Quentin Crisp

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

True love is like little roses,
sweet, fragrant in small doses. — Ana Claudia Antunes

I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun. — Penelope Cruz

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group. — Jessica White

It's time to write our own story. — Misty Copeland

It's a well-known fact. All women are clinically insane, but especially ballet dancers. Psycho. extremely psycho. Trust me. — Marisa De Los Santos

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. — Robert Gottlieb

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think? — Robert Duvall

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. — Clive Barnes

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

Line cooking done well is a beautiful thing to watch. It's a high-speed collaboration resembling, at its best, ballet or modern dance. — Anthony Bourdain

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. — Quentin Crisp

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life. — Karen Kain

Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life. — Kevin McKenzie

It's weird for minorities even just to buy tickets to the ballet. We feel like it's not a part of our lives and we're not a part of that world. — Misty Copeland

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough. — Carmen Electra

It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet. — Katherine Rundell

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural. — Anna Pavlova

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies — Paulo Coelho

Don't hold on to the barre like, 'I might die.' It's just ballet. — Misty Copeland

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough. — Alonzo King

Training for the ballet, Potter? yelled Malfoy. — J.K. Rowling

I'm never going to get married. I'm going to be a ballet-dancer. But don't tell anybody. — Leo Tolstoy

I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose. — Misty Copeland

Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still. — Guy Maddin

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare

I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7. — Sarah Hay

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet. — Sarah Gadon

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. — Benjamin Disraeli

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. — Ernie Harwell

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince. — Kyle Abraham

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying. — Wendy Whelan

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace. — Mia Wasikowska

A ballet of nimble-footed waitresses moved among the tables — Beth Hoffman

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

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage ... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet. — Robert Smith

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. — John Milton

Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot. — Joel Salatin

This book's like black holes.
It really engulfes you whole. — Ana Claudia Antunes

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there. — Kristin Chenoweth

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. — Edward Villella

In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet. — Julia Jones

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things. — Benjamin Millepied

I take class. I'm always ballet ready. I'm ready to go - got my tights and my shoes. — Joan Chen

I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever. — Misty Copeland

Ballet aficionados are just sports fans in formal wear. — S.L. Price

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is. — Carine Roitfeld

A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed. — Toni Bentley

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding. — Sofia Vassilieva

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

Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try to push diversity, for as long as I live. — Misty Copeland

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved. — Henry Mayhew

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet. — Gillian Jacobs

Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment. — Erol Ozan

Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player. — Katherine McNamara

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert Caro

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself. — Jean-Georges Noverre

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley. — Bruce Springsteen