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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The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music 1965 or other film soundtracks - whatever.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
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At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.
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I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
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It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.
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You have to love dancing to stick to it.
