Quotes About Young Dancers

#1. I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.

Gelsey Kirkland

#2. Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#3. I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: 'What's it like being a black dancer?' So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them.

Misty Copeland

#4. Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

Deborah Bull

#5. I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

Walt Whitman

#6. Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Theodor W. Adorno

#7. I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.

Elizabeth Debicki

#8. Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, the kind of group musicians and painters and dancers have always had.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. Dancers who were on the birth control pill - which essentially eliminates estrus - made about $193 per shift, also far less than ovulating women.

Larry Young

#10. Wisdom lies only in truth.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#11. A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

Reginald Horace Blyth

#12. You can choose to create a drama and get what you acted for or remain silent and get what you planned for.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#13. Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action.

Alan Cole

#14. I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

Julia Stiles

#15. Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we're in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.

Sascha Radetsky

#16. Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.

George Rogers Clark

#17. Shake It Up is a buddy comedy based around dance. It's about two best friends Rocky and CeCe who live out their dream as background dancers on a show called Shake It Up Chicago. They have to navigate life as young teens going to school and dancing on the show.

Zendaya

#18. Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

Mia Wasikowska

#19. if we were to give up our problem we wouldn't know who we would be without it. That's because the ego convinces us that we're nobody without our special problems.

Loretta Siani

#20. I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

James Otis

#21. A lot depends on the starting point.

Howard Raiffa

#22. Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

Jason Alexander