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“Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.”

Black Goodness Lakes Swans Black Swan Swan Lake Pirouettes

Author:Natalia Makarova

“These are the technicalities. The jetes and pirouettes.. but the music of the dance lies in the subtle signals between the steps: the fish's delivery of them, the fisherman's read of and response to them, which, if she's good, must be near telepathic. That's what takes a death-grip on your concentration. That's why your mind empties of all trivia, which, when playing a fish, includes just about everything else you could possible think of. That is what anglers live for.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Lying Steps Sea Rivers Response Fishes Boat Lakes Subtle Fishing Concentration Signals Delivery Fisherman Trivia Anglers Technicalities Pirouettes

Author:Jessica Maxwell

“My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.”

Home Life Is Turns Hours Eight Goodbye Pushing Hello Subway Never Ending Arriving Tokens Nodding Departing Pushing Through Pirouettes

Author:Rob Payne

“It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.”

Easy Water Ice Skating Fathom Dainty Pirouettes Skating On Thin Ice

Book:The Ringmaster's Daughter

Source: The Ringmaster's Daughter

“Something happens when you feel that energy and excitement from the audience. And you do, I don't know, four pirouettes. You jump higher than you ever have. And it's just this really magical thing that happens in those moments.”

Knows Feels Moments Happens Energy Audience Four Higher Things Happen Excitement Pirouettes

Author:Misty Copeland

“The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with this design.”

Way Wells Wanted Feet Design Crowds Excitement Dancer Capture Pirouettes

Author:Vera Wang

“Death tripped down the corridor, changing step, struck out here and there, danced pirouettes; often I felt his breath on my face when he was miles away; often I fell asleep and dreamed while he stood leaning over my bed.”

Faces Felt Steps Bed Breaths Miles Here And There Miles Away Corridors Pirouettes

Book:Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War

Source: Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War

“When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.”

Firsts Position Thirds Dancer Basics Pirouettes

Author:Rita Rudner

“I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.”

Perfect Coffee Holes Chocolate Chests Pirouettes

Author:Cecil Castellucci

“Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.”

Ifs Perfect Pirouettes

Book:City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?”

Knows Names Blessing Flames My Blessing Pirouettes

Book:Collected Poems: 1974-2004

Source: Collected Poems: 1974-2004

“Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started.”

Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel

“With a little inner pirouette of excitement I realised just how much there was to look forward to tomorrow. The thought of being all day naked in the sun was delicious enough in itself, but there was the whole of our new world to explore.”

World Looks Littles Enough Whole Sun Tomorrow Naked Excitement New World Clothings Delicious Realised Pirouettes

Author:Lucy Irvine

“I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.”

Ifs Men World Feels Writing Stills Book Use Lasts Past Reading Sound My Own Produce He Man Pride Reader Window Ass Dancer Shakes Closets Masterpiece Feedback Shaking Erratic Pirouettes

Author:Lester Bangs