Ethel Smyth Quotes
Crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.
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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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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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I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.
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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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I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.
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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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I think the whole thing, boy band, it's a little bit of a dirty word. They say it's not a good thing to be in a boy band. We want to change that. We want to make the boy band cool. It's not just about dancing and dressing the same.
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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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Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em.
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If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Failure can only open more doors for you as a person and as growth and life.
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It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.
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You will ask how I felt about spending so much time with people who supported the Hitler regime. I will tell you that, since I had absolutely no choice in the matter, I no longer dared to think about it. To be in Germany at that time, pretending to be an Aryan, meant that you automatically socialized with Nazis. To me, they were all Nazis, whether they belonged to the party or not. For me to have made distinctions at that time—to say Hilde was a “good” Nazi and the registrar was a “bad” Nazi—would have been silly and dangerous, because the good ones could turn you in as easily and capriciously as the bad ones could save your life.
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Crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.
