George Balanchine Quotes

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

George Balanchine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: January 9, 1904 - April 30, 1983

Topics

MedicineTeachersEveryoneTerrible

I wouldn't call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I'm not a club man. I don't like isms. I've never really studied Stanislavski.

Jeremy Irons

CharacterMyselfManResearchActor

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

Meg Ryan

BestLivingModernAboutThing

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Maxim Gorky

FutureChildrenMomThinkBirth

I have lots of different interests. Any of my friends will know I'm interested both in science and in art.

Ann Makosinski

ScienceArtFriendsKnowWillBoth

We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.

Michael Irvin

CoolThinkBreathOutUpStanding

In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage and navigate.

Stewart Butterfield

PeopleSmallYouCreateChannels

You only stop learning when you quit.

Ruud Gullit

LearningYouStopQuitOnly

I'm an American, and I live pretty well. But go down to Mexico, and a lot of people really don't. So what, we're going to blame them for trying to get out?

Michael Pena

LivePeopleBlameAmericanTrying

When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny was funny; I loved to laugh. I always liked people I found generally funny.

Michael Keaton

FunnyPeopleWritingLovedLaugh

It was a sort of weird, troubled road into acting because I had been a bit naughty in school until I did my Highers, and then I was like, 'Oh, I think I'm going to apply myself and surprise everyone.'

Chloe Pirrie

MyselfSchoolRoadThinkSurprise

He has your finger, but I have your heart.

Brian Celio

HeartFingerYourHe

When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and others, all was entirely incomprehensible to me. I groped through a mist of blurred meanings, stumbled through lines in which every accent seemed to be in the wrong place.

Austin Clarke

MyselfMeWrongPlaceOthersFirst

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