Peter Martins famous quotes
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...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up
-- Peter Martins -
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It requires discipline, taking care of yourself, taking care of your own body first. Then it allows you to give of that beauty, the beauty that you acquire by sculpting your own body all your life.
-- Peter Martins
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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.
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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.
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Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
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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.
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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.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.
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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.
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One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
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I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.
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