"Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training."

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Source : "Black Swan Choreographer Benjamin Millepied on Teaching Natalie Portman to Have Swan Arms" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. December 3, 2010.

Benjamin Millepied

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“Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.”
“What is it that you most fear hearing about your work?”
“America isn't Wollman Rink, but I think almost everybody watching, and certainly the people who voted for him, have had frustrating experiences with bureaucrats and bureaucracy, private as well as public, pushing them around.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.”
“A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.”
“I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.”
“The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life”

Source : Ma Jian (2008). “Beijing Coma: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan
“I will never give up if you never give in.”

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