#ballet

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny. ↗

— Vin Diesel

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Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think? ↗

— Robert Duvall

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I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#always #ballet #first #first love #i

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#buy #dad #doing #gave #god

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

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I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#bent #dance #had #i #knees

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children. ↗

— Greta Gerwig

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

— John Guare

#city #george #george steinbrenner #i #i think

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. ↗

— John Guare

#believe #center #city #however #i

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted. ↗

— John Guare

#ballet #because #celebration #city #every