Clive Barnes famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.
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One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
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Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
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One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.
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I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?
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I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the naked truth about himself and other people. That, a little technique with words and the willingness to bare heart, soul and body are really all it takes.
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The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
-- Clive Barnes
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During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ***** followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.
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As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
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My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.
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Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
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... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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