Peter Martins famous quotes

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  • To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

  • Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

  • Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

  • They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

  • I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

  • The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

  • This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

  • As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

  • One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

  • I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.