Millepied Quotes

#1. 'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.

Robert Gottlieb

#2. Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.

Gordon Strachan

#3. There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Jose Rizal

#4. Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.

Ned Yost

#5. Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

John Dryden

#6. I'm interested in films, in directing.

Benjamin Millepied

#7. In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle

Cornel West

#8. Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

#9. He looked up at her. Age and worry had taken their toll on her frail body, but she was kind and beautiful. And for a moment, memories and thoughts swam to the surface, the world coming into utter clarity. And all of them revolved around Amanda, his wife of fifty years.

Crissy Moss

#10. When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

Benjamin Millepied

#11. Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

Benjamin Millepied

#12. Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.

Holly Madison

#13. Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

John Norman

#14. I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble ... and drama. It's either I'm working, or I have nothing to do but focus on my personal life. It's a little hectic.

Emily Meade

#15. I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.

Benjamin Millepied

#16. The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it's gone on for too long. Nothing would make me happier than having a company that reflects society, to have dancers onstage that people can relate to.

Benjamin Millepied

#17. I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Gustave Courbet

#18. I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years.

Benjamin Millepied

#19. To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

Philip Johnson

#20. I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

Richard Dawkins

#21. I am passionate about ballet.

Benjamin Millepied

#22. In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

Benjamin Millepied

#23. Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.

Thomas Sowell

#24. Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

Benjamin Millepied

#25. Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.

Benjamin Millepied

#26. 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

Benjamin Millepied

#27. Now, she had to be strong enough to look weak.

Laini Taylor