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“Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.”

“Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle.”

People Ifs Looks Littles Said Enough Lord Dog Cat Dresses Pet Cowboy Clown Turtles Ballerina Peeves Pet Peeve

Book:The Stargirl Collection

Source: The Stargirl Collection

“After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.”

Sound Walks Mountain Reflection Tiny Lakes Shore Swings Jam Beans Benches Pumps Ballerina Sound Of Music Overlooking

Book:Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!”

Dancing Fairy Jealous Princess Ballerina Veterinarian Tap Dancing Jealous Of Me Fairy Princess

Author:Daniel Handler

“I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.”

Dancing Dance Clown Just Dance Ballerina Flawless

Book:Lady Oracle

Source: Lady Oracle

“Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!”

“I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.”

Mines Dancing Dance Quitting Muscles Injured Just Dance Ballerina Funny Dance

Author:Rita Rudner

“Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?”

Years Art Lasts Night Dies Years Ago Remains Dancing Dance Forgotten Productions Excited Decades Glorious Dancer Retiring Last Night Just Dance Ballerina Choreographers Art Dance Last Dance

Author:Jack Anderson

“You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.”

Loses Attention Progress Losing Dance Ballet New Things Advancing Ballerina

Author:Ninette de Valois

“I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.”

Thinking Important Dance Sake Ballet Ballerina

Author:Suzanne Farrell

“When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.”

Problem Causes Weight Dance Lifts Ballet Ballerina

Author:Maris Liepa

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

Life Easy Dance Selfish Obsession Obsessed Ballet Things In Life Ballerina Narrow-minded

Author:Darcey Bussell

“The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.”

Body Grows Voice Forever Boxes Tiny Stuck Features Feminine Old Fashioned Pins Static Childlike Spirals Unchanging Ballerina Rotating

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?”

Believe Mean Periods Winner Grades Prize Why Not Nobel Ballerina Nobel Peace Prize

Author:Chris Colfer

“I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.”

Kids Wanted Acting Capacity Singers Ballerina

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would dream about being a movie star too. But those dreams are the impossible kind, the kind you don't really set your heart on.”

Heart Kind Dream School Girl Stars Impossible Becoming Movie Star Psychiatrist Ballerina

Author:Sharon Tate

“A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role.”

Different Individual Given Steps Roles Ballerina

Author:Maria Tallchief

“Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.”

Wanted Happened Indian Native Native American Appreciated American Indian Ballerina

Author:Maria Tallchief

“I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.”

Two Wanted Actresses Ballerina

Author:Dakota Fanning

“I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.”

Ifs World Mean Would Be Wanted Wonder Imagine Grew Grew Up Filled Nurse Cowboy Ballerina Fireman

Author:Lily Tomlin

“A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.”

Commitment Shoes Ballet Toes Eccentric Ballerina

Author:Toni Bentley

“I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me. [...] There’s just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don’t know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don’t invalidate me.”

People Knows Want Trying I Can War Moving Used Stuff Mistake Know How Mets Photographer Comedian Surround Good People I Have Learned Survived Do The Best My Friendship Ballerina

Author:Cat Power

“Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.”

Inspirational Women Can Do Limits Findings Overcoming Perseverance Limitation Persistence Pushing Finding Yourself Push Yourself Ballerina

Author:Sylvie Guillem

“Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.”

Art Exercise Dance Ballet Ballerina Choreographers

Author:Alicia Alonso

“I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.”

Feels Differences Ballerina Choreographers Linguists

Author:Kató Lomb

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

“My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.”

Different Body Girl Black Rocks Hair Empowering Dancer Empowering Women Ballerina Black Girl

Author:Misty Copeland

“I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.”

People Want Should Interest Chickens Ballerina Funky

Author:Scott McClanahan

“Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.”

Ifs World Would Be Wanted Grew Grew Up Nurse Ballerina Fireman

Author:Lily Tomlin

“I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to turn a perfect turn. You are not thinking about the future of the company, you are not thinking about your future, you're not thinking about the critics, it is you and the perfect turn.”

“At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.”

Way Hard School Player Males Guitar Hard Times Norm Guitar Player Ballerina

Author:Orianthi

“And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.”

Ballerina Sopranos

Author:Ninette de Valois

“As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.”

Ifs Art School Found Left Alive Special Goes On Ballet Something Special Ballerina Time Goes On

Author:Ninette de Valois

“You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.”

Can Do Education Genius Creating Ballet Nurture Ballerina

Author:Ninette de Valois

“I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina.”

People Way Trying Stills Black Dancer Delicate Ballerina Trying To Change

Author:Michaela DePrince

“If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.”

Ifs Fashion If I Could Ballerina

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.”

Pieces Taught Arms Scary Legs Cake Scream Ballerina

Author:Jennifer Ellison

“Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.”

Differences Fields Flower Metaphor Ballerina Poppies Daffodil

Author:Michaela DePrince

“A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.”

“I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.”

Knows May Levels Acting Know How Teacher Taught Method Tables Crafts Obliged Ballerina Violinist Method Acting Acting Teachers

Author:Ellen Barkin

“When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.”

Mother Father Growing Up Growing Becoming Actresses Spy Detectives Dentist Ballerina Homemaker Cowgirls

Author:Judy Blume

“I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.”

Wanted Spotlight Ballerina Speaking In Public

Author:April Bowlby

“I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.”

Mind Wanted Changed Ballerina

Author:Beverly Cleary

“To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.”

Wanted Moving Company New York Be Good Ballerina Charleston

Author:Jennifer Garner

“Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.”

Men Poetry Baby Band Blue Dancing Sand Pirate Ballerina Music Man

Author:Elton John

“I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.”

Ifs World Want Dream Acting Ballerina Dream World

Author:Elle Fanning

“I've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came to be.”

Years Wanted Dancer Ballerina

Author:Jenna Jameson

“You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.”

Feels Looks Ideas Light Break Lighters Break Through Ballerina

Author:Gelsey Kirkland

“When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.”

Fun Grows Growing Up Ballerina

Author:Karen Kain

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