Maria Tallchief famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What's important is that I'm working with very talented young people.
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A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role,
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Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina,
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I don't mind being listed alphabetically. I do mind being treated alphabetically.
-- Maria Tallchief
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I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
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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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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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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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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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The search is more important than the destination
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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