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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Ballet

"The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it."

Car Ballet Toasters
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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Ballet

"Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue."

Dancer Ballet Vehemence
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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer
Ballet

"I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it."

Art Looks Ballet
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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
Ballet

"Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living."

Joy Wine Ballet
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Clive Barnes Critic, Author
Ballet

"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."

Dance Ballet Athletic
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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
Ballet

"Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare."

America Suffering Ballet
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Steven Morrissey Singer-Songwriter
Ballet

"Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet."

People Kind Ballet
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Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
Ballet

"Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature."

Religious Ballet New Shoes
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