If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.

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

Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.

I wear Jordans when I'm in the ring, alright? This isn't ballet, you know?

All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

I've always just done ballet, and I feel like I'm sort of living the dream.

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college.

I did ballet, piano and all that - my brother did martial arts, my passion.

I want to have daughter, and if I do, I want to make sure she learns ballet.

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

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

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

There was a period of time when I studied ballet a lot when I was growing up.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.

The idea for 'Ballet Baby' started when I was going through my own pregnancy.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

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

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

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

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

You should have seen me at 14, with braces and glasses, gangly and doing ballet!

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.

The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

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

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