Merce Cunningham Quotes
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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.
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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.
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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I love dancing.
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I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.
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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.
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Modern dancing is old fashioned.
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I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!
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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
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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.
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Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!' 'I don't know, a bowl?' 'Non... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!
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All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.
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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.
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God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.
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We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
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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.
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Failure can only open more doors for you as a person and as growth and life.
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Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.
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Sometimes, however, there is more than hope. Sometimes there is reason.
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When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash out: you can see it in the media, scapegoating and penal sentencing.
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In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.
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You have to love dancing to stick to it.
