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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Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.
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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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We must be vigilant in sharing our stories and our truths as queer parents of color at every chance we get if we hope to see art imitate real life.
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Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?
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If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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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.
