Harry Shum, Jr. Quotes

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

Harry Shum, Jr.

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• Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Dance

• Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Night
  • Party
  • Dance

• When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Dance
  • Listening
  • Quiet

• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rock

• The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Children

• The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Moment

• I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Crazy
  • Powerful

• I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.

  

  Feist
  • Friends
  • First
  • Circle

• I guess I just wasn't meant to dance.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Dance
  • Just
  • Guess

• During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Good
  • Night

• It was extraordinary 'cause I was 17 years old when I first danced with Edward Villella. And we were both young. But I had seen him dance, and he was already a star. So he was just so gentle and wonderful and kind, and we had a great rapport together. He was one of the most exciting dancers of our day.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Great
  • Together
  • Day

• Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Dance
  • Story
  • Movement

• The challenge is maintaining your interest over a long career, as opposed to pushing hard with no longevity. I'm surprised that I've been able to dance as long as I have.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Long
  • Career
  • Challenge

• He had not remembered her name, but he had seen her dance - had been carried away and fascinated by the supreme art that can make you forget art.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Art
  • Dance

• Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• I am not very comfortable about dancing at weddings and New Year parties. Maybe it's because of the way I have been brought up; I wouldn't want my family to feel that cringe moment. Dance is an art for me.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Up
  • Family
  • Art

• New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.

  

  Diplo
  • Music
  • City
  • Dance

• Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Work
  • Art
  • Space

• I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Song

• I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Dance
  • inspirational
  • Pleasure

• I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Value
  • Hair
  • Unique

• If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Nature
  • Write
  • Create

• I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Dance
  • Circle
  • Corner