Nutcrackers Quotes

• Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

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  Edward Abbey

  Nutcrackers   Reincarnation  

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.

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  Matthew Bourne

  Moving   Scary   Mouths  

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• I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

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  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Plot   Nutcrackers  

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• If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

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  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance   Way   Nutcrackers  

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• I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

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  Laurieann Gibson

  Eye   Technique   Stories  

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• You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

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  Natalia Makarova

  Lakes   Swans   Nutcrackers  

  "Natalia Makarova, Kennedy Center honoree". Interview with Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.

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• What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.

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  Kelly Easton

  Stars   Eye   Color  

  Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

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  Vera Nazarian

  Christmas   Holiday   Childhood  

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• When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.

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  Robert Gottlieb

  America   Nutcrackers   December  

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• There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

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  Gladys Taber

  Moving   Hero   Men  

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