Top 17 Robert Helpmann Quotes

#1. It was the former ballet star Robert Helpmann who famously observed the problem with dancing naked: when you stop on the music, not all parts of your anatomy stop at the same time.

Alastair Macaulay

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#2. The FBI continues to work with tribes through the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 to help tribal governments better address the unique public safety challenges and disproportionately high rates of violence and victimization in many tribal communities.

James Comey

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#3. Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think they don't understand it. Actually they do. It's the most primitive form of appeal.

Robert Helpmann

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#4. I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

Robert Helpmann

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#5. When expectations of mobility are combined with a consumer mind-set, people are very likely to leave when things get difficult.

Christine D. Pohl

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#6. In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#7. Live now; be damn'd hereafter.

Edward Young

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#8. I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this.

Jeff Goldblum

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#9. The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.

Robert Helpmann

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#10. Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

Calista Flockhart

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#11. The reasons leading to the origin of the problem aren't always simple, but the solution always is.

Jamie McGuire

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#12. I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back ...

Robert Helpmann

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#13. Dying of tetanus might be preferable to spending any more time in your company...

Jessica Gadziala

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#14. I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

Paz De La Huerta

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#15. What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

Jonathan Davis

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#16. And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

Robert Helpmann

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#17. I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about.

Robert Helpmann

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