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Ballet Quotes
"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."
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"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
"I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do."
"I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment."
"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."
"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
"I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another."
"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
"I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater."
"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."
"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."
"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."
"I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted."
"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
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