Edward Villella quotes

Edward Villella quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.”
-- Edward Villella

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“I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy.”
-- Edward Villella

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“Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.”
“When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.”
“A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.”
“For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.”
“From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.”
“I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.”

Source : "Ali Wentworth Talks ‘Ali In Wonderland,’ Life With George Stephanopoulos" by Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 07, 2012.
“Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.”
“Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.”

Source : "The History of Ancient Philosophy". Book by Heinrich Ritter, translared by Alexander James William Morrison, Volume 1, 1838.
“I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.”
“Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.”

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