Chris Black Quotes
I was forced to go to Cotillion when I was in seventh grade. So I learned what fork is what and dance steps.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel.
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Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
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Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.
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I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.
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I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.
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If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don't think of it as anything other than a dance, really. I don't see that person. I don't think of me being me.
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I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.
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When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.
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Where is yesterday? … And where is the fiddler and where is the dance?
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I think if you take 'Get Ready,' 'Waiting For The Siren's Call,' 'Lost Sirens' - those three New Order albums were mostly guitar-based. There were a couple of dance tunes in there, but they were mainly guitar-oriented. They came about through jamming, a lot of them.
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Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.
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Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going to hit the stage and perform.
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A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.
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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.
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Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
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I did some research into domestic violence, and there were some stories that will stay me with forever.
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I was forced to go to Cotillion when I was in seventh grade. So I learned what fork is what and dance steps.
