Arlene Croce Quotes

#1. All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

Maggie Osborne

#2. Ballet is only good when it is great.

Arlene Croce

#3. Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy.

Arlene Croce

#4. Writing didn't carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn't be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield.

Samantha Shannon

#5. When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you.

Nuno Bettencourt

#6. It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

Arlene Croce

#7. If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.

Arlene Croce

#8. One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

Mark Twain

#9. Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

Arlene Croce

#10. To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.

Arlene Croce

#11. A masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

Arlene Croce

#12. Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

Arlene Croce

#13. As burned as I've been by local churches and by people who call themselves in God's name, Jesus gave us the church. It's supposed to be a community of like-minded people who encourage and strengthen each other. But that's not how it always works.

Anne Graham Lotz

#14. Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

Arlene Croce

#15. I do believe that you've got a bad case of the Gottafuckems!

Colleen Masters

#16. It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

Arlene Croce

#17. So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it

Robert Fulghum

#18. I'm not even close to those guys, but I don't think anyone loves the game more than me.

David Wells