"Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression."

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Source : Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.10, Courier Corporation

Lincoln Kirstein

#Dance Quotes #Determination Quotes #Artist Quotes

“Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.”
“Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.”
“Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasnâ€™t.”
“A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.”

Source : Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.260, St. Martin's Griffin
“Lady Gaga's fans are the worst,”

Source : "Kelly Osbourne Bullied By Lady Gaga’s Fans: They Call Me Fat", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.
“when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.”
“We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.”
“I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.”

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