Millepied Benjamin Quotes & Sayings

I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years. — Benjamin Millepied

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory. — Mary Stewart

We're both drunk,"
"This isn't right," he said.
"I want you."
"I need you to say it," he said.
"I'll say whatever you want."
"Then say that you belong to me. Say that you'll take me back. I won't do this unless we're together."
"We've never really been apart, have we?"
"I need to hear you say it. I need to know you're mine."
"I've been yours since the second we met."
"Say it again,"he said.
"I'm yours," I breathed. Every nerve, inside and out ached for more. "I don't ever want to be apart from you again."
"Promise me,"
"I love you. I'll love you forever. — Jamie McGuire

I'm a Buddhist and active in my Buddhist's Association, and I'm actually a National Young Women's representative for the organization, so I travel a lot helping young women who are practicing Buddhism. — Vinessa Shaw

Where the mind goes the body will follow. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all. — Benjamin Millepied

The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it's gone on for too long. Nothing would make me happier than having a company that reflects society, to have dancers onstage that people can relate to. — Benjamin Millepied

I am passionate about ballet. — Benjamin Millepied

When the north pole comes so close as to touch the south pole, the earth disappears and man finds himself in a void that makes his head spin and beckons him to fall. — Milan Kundera

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it. — Cameron Diaz

The trouble is small, the fun is great. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's about time I spent time on what's really important." "Well, work, then dinner, then you can do what's really important." Then he added, "You know I'm what's important, don't you? I meant that you can do me. — N.R. Walker

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images. — Benjamin Millepied

Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms. — Benjamin Millepied

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere. — Alan W. Watts

I was born in France. I grew up in Africa. — Benjamin Millepied

'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. — Robert Gottlieb

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer. — Benjamin Millepied

And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition. — Thomas Hobbes

The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I'm interested in films, in directing. — Benjamin Millepied

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things. — Benjamin Millepied

I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I? — Hill Harper

'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. — Benjamin Millepied

Achati chuckled. You may be surprised. Some might come in the hopes of being snatched away to a secret place ruled by exotic women. — Trudi Canavan

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency. — Denzel Washington