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• I’d love to look like my mum when I am her age. She taught ballet for years, and my attitude to exercise and fitness has definitely been influenced by her. She’s 84 now, and I’ve watched how well she has aged, and a lot of that is to do with her fantastic posture.

  Sarah Parish

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• My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum’s dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.

  Sarah Parish

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  Tags in Ballet, Dance

• My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It’s their fault I’ve become an actress.

  Bar Paly

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  Tags in Ballet, Exhibitions

• You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

  Susanna Hoffs

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  Tags in Ballet, Worked

• I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

  Kiernan Shipka

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  Tags in Vocabulary, Ballet

• Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

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  Tags in Ballet, Dancer

• I was a ballet dancer growing up and that’s what I was convinced I would be

  Candice Swanepoel

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• All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

  Natalia Makarova

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  Tags in Music, Reading, Ballet

• If I didn’t have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

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• When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings – singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

  Michelle Dockery

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  Tags in Loved, Acting, Ballet, Modern

• I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

  Scott Thompson

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  Tags in Ballet, Dancer

• I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

  Elle Macpherson

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  Tags in Self, Wanted, Study, Ballet

• The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

  Suzanne Farrell

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  Tags in Ballet, Fact

• In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

  Suzanne Farrell

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• I didn’t care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn’t feel like I wanted to do.

  Suzanne Farrell

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  Tags in Ballet, Care

• Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don’t want to unravel that mystery.

  Robert Caro

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• I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

  Zoe Saldana

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• A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

  Twyla Tharp

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• Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It’s not only using your mind, it’s like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

  Zoe Saldana

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  Tags in Ballet, Informed, Graceful, Govern, Grace

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

  George Balanchine

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