Millepied Dancer Quotes & Sayings

Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from the phenomena of motions and then to demonstrate the other phenomena from these forces. It is to these ends that the general propositions in books 1 and 2 are directed, while in book 3 our explanation of the system of the world illustrates these propositions. — Isaac Newton

Financially, I do not need to work unless I want to, and whatever film I accept has to be right for me in the sense that it should justify the time I spend away from my husband and kids. — Kajol

'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

Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience. — Georges Didi-Huberman

After a series of traumas, one can lose the capacity to feel fear appropriately. (xiii) — Jessica Stern

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

I wasn't supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn't supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be [covering] kicks the rest of my life. But here I am. I'm a man playing with the house's money, and that's a dangerous man. — Bart Scott

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it. — Hillary Clinton

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person. — Amanda Bynes

The Irish mingled their Christianity with folk beliefs in fairies and changelings. — Ryan Hackney

I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.' — Christopher Buckley

Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman. — Ben Casnocha