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Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.


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CAMILLE PAGLIA Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow hor...
JAMES WOLCOTT Training for the ballet, Potter?
J.K. ROWLING When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know wh...
JAMES MCBRIDE I'm not a ballet dancer. I don't come from a ballet background.
ALAN VINCENT I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had ...
WENDY WHELAN I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
ADAM GARCIA All she had ahead of her was the cold water, the slow ballet.
LAUREN GROFF Radio City Music Hall was at the table. Alvin Ailey, Hubbard Street, the New York City Ballet, Ameri...
RICHARD GIBBS Instead of having a completely Western ballet, we have a ballet with elements of Indian dance.
FRANCIS WACZIARG Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet ...
DAVID HALLBERG I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different ...
KIERNAN SHIPKA Classic Ballet,

Keep away, keep building your creaky fairy castles, keep cloning clones a...
PAUL TAYLOR Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, ...
MISTY COPELAND Jeremy Irons of ballet.
AMERICAN THEATRE Jeremy Irons of ballet.
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for e...
WILL KEMP One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's danci...
CLIVE BARNES When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
TOMMY LEE Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Bal...
SHANA ALEXANDER Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM If ballet were easy, they'd call it football
ROBIN WILLIAMS Matthew has opened the doors to a wider audience for ballet.
ALAN VINCENT I've got a hairy chest, for one thing. I don't have a huge ballet technique -- my legs don't go that...
ALAN VINCENT I actually quit ballet when I was 14,
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE He moved like a cat, a ballet dancer, but there was nothing homosexual about him...He could be dange...
LEE MARVIN All you can do is be your best self. I'm representing more than just me. I think everyone should be ...
MISTY COPELAND It's time to write our own story.
MISTY COPELAND I'm bored stiff by ballet. i can't bear those muscular white legs like unbaked plaited loaves, and I...
JILLY COOPER It’s a plié. You do it on all the positions. It’s very good for dramatic moments.
ANNE URSU But he had never seen Myrna in practice...never that close up. He had been impressed and a little fr...
STEPHEN KING I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerin...
ANTON CHEKHOV And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink sa...
EDGAR DEGAS The piece has been danced on four continents by 15 ballet companies. It's a very strange compilation...
VICTORIA MORGAN I've always performed classical ballet so I've never been challenged like this. (African dance) is v...
SARAH HAIRSTON For youngsters to see just modern or ballet or hip-hop is wrong. I want them to see a rich variety.
GARTH FAGAN My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation...
SHULER HENSLEY In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
GEORGE BALANCHINE You translate paint to fabric, somebody gets into it and the ballet begins.
ALAIN VAIS We both read the stories through last summer. There was way too much for one ballet, so we compared ...
GERARD CHARLES You have to understand that with ballet if you're a year and a half out, it takes about as long to g...
JAN DIJKWEL I don't have the dance background like Stacy, who studied ballet, or Drew, who was in a boy band.
LISA RINNA I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am ...
BEBE NEUWIRTH Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image eng...
DARCEY BUSSELL Wrestling is ballet with violence.
JESSE VENTURA I am passionate about ballet.
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED 'The Nutcracker' is the ballet that keeps on giving.
DAVID H. KOCH I took ballet for a while and it wasn't like, jumpy enough for me.
ANNA HILL I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
CARLA KORBES I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. On the subject of h...
ELLE MACPHERSON How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear ...
SONIA RYKIEL My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do...
MISTY COPELAND We play football. It's not ballet.
SHAUN ALEXANDER We have talked to our arts colleagues around the country, and they say no one has ever attempted any...
CHARLES SWANSON [So we won't be seeing the Australian Ballet consider a naked Albrecht, a la Mats Ek, any time soon?...
DAVID MCALLISTER Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.
AZZEDINE ALAIA Our sights are set on improving over our performance last year. I definitely think we have the talen...
GARY TOWNE I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
JACLYN SMITH Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.
JOSEPH ALTUZARRA People think girls need to do ballet.
CAITLIN TANNER Football is the ballet of the masses.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH My parents were ballet dancers, and I did a lot of ballet, too, so I think I learned quite early on ...
ELIZABETH DEBICKI I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can drea...
MISTY COPELAND I want the ballet world to be given the respect that it deserves and to be seen by more people - for...
MISTY COPELAND We do a lot of ballet movements in class. So if you don't have a Crunch gym nearby, you can check ou...
DONNA CYRUS I actually quit ballet when I was 14,
AMERICAN THEATRE With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.
JANE HAMILTON I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
ELLE FANNING On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives...
SUZANNE FARRELL It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet.
KATHERINE RUNDELL I feel his arm
Lightly
Over me.
He takes one of my outstretched hands.
Draws i...
STASIA WARD KEHOE Respect your body. Eat well. Dance forever.
ELIZA GAYNOR MINDEN It is a paradox that those who flock to a repertory form like ballet because it preserves the classi...
ANNA KISSELGOFF This is a hugely enjoyable dance- spectacular, perfect for ballet lovers of all ages.
NIKI BURGHAM We're really anchored here. And that's the way it should be, because every great city has a great ba...
GERALD ARPINO There really is a perception that if you know the ballet studies, you know Degas. Actually, nothing ...
EDWARD SAYWELL I'd never heard of a ballet company that didn't have dancers and didn't have performances. It was on...
KAREN BROWN Through ballet I was fortunate to find a place to escape, a refuge from my feelings of being an outs...
HEATHER WHITESTONE It's so important to have someone that actually knows the ballet, ... Not just the steps, but the st...
ROBERT WEISS All the music from the ballet I found to be expressive and easy on the ears. I like variety . . . I ...
JAMES BUCKLEY Another fascinating aspect, ... is that it can be a completely different ballet depending on who's d...
JULIE KENT The Atlanta metro climate for dance is not strong. In many people's minds, there's the Atlanta Balle...
DOUGLAS SCOTT There really is a perception that if you know the ballet studies, you know Degas, ... Actually, noth...
EDWARD SAYWELL Ormsby has long been recognized as one of the finest ballet conductors anywhere and we wish him ever...
KAREN KAIN Ballet is just a vocabulary like English. Most classical ballets emphasize how high a woman can hold...
JAMES BUCKLEY The ballet was the thing to which she was really committed - the film industry was a bit of a distra...
LUDOVIC KENNEDY The ballet was a turning point for the company when it premiered in 1972 and I am happy to be able t...
KAREN KAIN I feel that Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley is strong and on the right path for establishing an insti...
RAYMOND RODRIGUEZ I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of b...
JULIET MILLS Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.
DAVID HALLBERG Really, the only true ballet moments are with the Fairy Godmother, the Four Seasons and the Twelve S...
JULIE GUTTAS I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the h...
HERSCHEL WALKER I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.
ALICIA VIKANDER I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.
LAURA SLADE WIGGINS I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
NASTASSJA KINSKI I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus ...
CHANDRA WEST The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that ...
JOHN GUARE Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself.
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ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
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