Erik Bruhn Quotes
If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.
Erik Bruhn
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
Caity Lotz
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Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front.' She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.
Caity Lotz
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I was a street dancer.
Eartha Kitt
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If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'
Angela Robinson
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I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
George Benson
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Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.
Darren Aronofsky
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If you have a body you are a dancer
Gabrielle Roth
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I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer.
Jim Gaffigan
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He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.
John Locke
Nazareth
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Come swish around my pretty punk
And keep me dancing still
That I may stay a sober man
Although I drink my fill.
William Butler Yeats
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Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.
Danielle Arbid
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When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.
Darren McCarty
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I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from each to represent my own personality. Whitney Houston, George Michaels, Sade, Phil Collins, and many others have influenced me.
Laura Pausini
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The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease-unless we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines.
William Walker Atkinson
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Being a dancer I've got the idea that through discipline and hard work, you can develop the ability to be in a different dimension within seconds. You can be vomiting, you can detest who you are, detest the world, detest every single thing, and the next moment you are in the light and you glow. You forget everything, and you are just flying. When you're onstage, you are someone else. Beyoncé is very conscious of this. She said to me, "I'm another person when I'm onstage." And I said, "Oh yes, you are! You are an animal when you are onstage. You are a stage animal."
Thierry Mugler
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I am not a natural dancer.
Ricki Lake
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I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.
Cannonball Adderley
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I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.
Naomi Novik
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One went on and on, never dreaming of the sudden dreadful day when the coverings were going to be dropped and one would see it was death after all, that it had been death all the time, death pretending, death waiting.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy
Thomas Bulfinch
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If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.
Erik Bruhn
