Young Dancer Quotes

#1. A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

Liz Sheridan

#2. I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

Misty Copeland

#3. Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

Anna Neagle

#4. (after Quigley explains that the ghosts have been feeding off of their misery)
Toma: So, what, we should think happy thoughts?!
Duane: That is not a talent of mine.

Ashley Cope

#5. I have a normal life; I don't do anything crazy.

Courtney Barnett

#6. Joy could be as exhausting as grief.

Helen Kieran Reilly

#7. The human body is the best work of art.

Jess C. Scott

#8. A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

Sally Kirkland

#9. He said smilingly, "Young man, you're an excellent dancer. Will you be my 'private dancer'?

Young

#10. If you're looking for a place with no change, try a soda machine.

Max Lucado

#11. A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

Dave Hickey

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.

Amanda Schull

#16. It doesn't matter how much you plan, you'll still get some stuff wrong anyway. Don't make things worse by overanalyzing and delaying before you even get going.

Jason Fried

#17. Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

Wyndham Lewis

#18. 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

#19. But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

Deborah Bull

#20. A young girl reached out to me to be her mentor one day, which I didn't really know anything about. What I did remember was what it was to be alone as an African-American dancer in the ballet world and wanting to connect with someone who looks like me.

Misty Copeland

#21. The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

Allan Kaprow

#22. I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

Suzanne Farrell

#23. As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

Lord Byron

#24. Whether you like another band's music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.

Adam Rich

#25. If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

Martin Luther

#26. I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was that I wanted to speak. I wanted the music to stop, and I wanted to speak.

Gina Rodriguez

#27. There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

David Starr Jordan

#28. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.

Michael C. Reed

#29. 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

#30. Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so drawn to something lovely in music and in movement, and yet they encounter a world full of judgment and criticism of 11-year-old artists and bodies.

Sharon Lawrence

#31. I vow on this holy ground that when this is all over, I'm going to bend you over the first available surface and fuck you sideways. Got it?

Kerrigan Byrne