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“Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.”

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Author:Alexander Pushkin

“I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.”

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Author:Kate Hudson

“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."”

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Author:Quentin Crisp

“Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him."”

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Author:Quentin Crisp

“Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.”

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Author:George Balanchine

“I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.”

“God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.”

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Author:George Balanchine

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

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Author:George Balanchine

“In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.”

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Author:George Balanchine

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

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Author:Adam Garcia

“I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.”

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Author:Miranda Otto

“I wanted to be a ballet teacher.”

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Author:Jaclyn Smith

“I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was an awkward child and the family wanted me to be graceful. When I found out I liked to dance and people seemed to like to watch me, I was determined to go places.”

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Author:Vera-Ellen

“I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.”

Source: Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie

“Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.”