Merce Cunningham Quotes

You have to love dancing to stick to it.

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• You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Matter
  • Films
  • Dancing

• I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • World
  • Discipline
  • Comfortable

• My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

  

  Becky G
  • House
  • Attention
  • Singing

• I love dancing.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Dancing

• I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Three
  • Dancing
  • Scottish

• I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Dancing
  • Percent
  • OK

• I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Stars
  • Dancing

• I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Time
  • Period
  • Professional

• Modern dancing is old fashioned.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Old
  • Modern
  • Dancing

• I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

  

  Vijay
  • Practice
  • Enjoy
  • Dancing

• The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

  

  James Brown
  • Problem
  • Dance
  • Happiness

• Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it's fun. While it's happening it's fun. I feel tall.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Fun
  • High
  • Practice

• Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!' 'I don't know, a bowl?' 'Non... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Knows
  • Dancing
  • Pants

• All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Littles
  • Dancing
  • Honey

• Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Labels
  • Sticks
  • Vagrants

• God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.

  

  F. F. Bruce Quotes
  • God
  • Peace
  • Joy

• We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Dance
  • Dancing
  • Cosmos

• Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

  

  Jerome Robbins
  • Art
  • Book
  • Dance

• Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.

  

  William Prynne
  • Dancing
  • Madness
  • Necessary

• My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Change
  • Learn
  • Illusion

• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Work
  • Give

• You have to love dancing to stick to it.

  

  Merce Cunningham
  • Dancing
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