Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.
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“Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.”
— Shana Alexander · Arts
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More Arts Quotes
“I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.”
“Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.”
“Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.”
“Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.”
“I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.”
“In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.”