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		Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.
	
	  Beth Riesgraf Beth Riesgraf
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		I used to throw on soundtracks, and orchestral stuff would be the only thing I could write to, maybe 'Dead Can Dance' or 'Cocteau Twins' or something. Mostly, it was movies scores that would kind of inspire me.
	
	  Christopher McCulloch Christopher McCulloch
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		I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.
	
	  Pope Francis Pope Francis
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		Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.
	
	  Maury Yeston Maury Yeston
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		All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.
	
	  Afrika Bambaataa Afrika Bambaataa
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		Basic dance - and I should qualify the word basic - is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so-but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end-that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.
	
	  Alwin Nikolais Alwin Nikolais
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		It is a special, weird thing being a cheerleader. You need to want to yell and perform, dance, and wear a cute little costume. It's a thing you're kind of born with or without.
	
	  Betsey Johnson Betsey Johnson
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		I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied that in ballet class, you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class, you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable, and I've had a connection to since the beginning.
	
	  Jillian Hervey Jillian Hervey
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		I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.
	
	  Dick Van Dyke Dick Van Dyke
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		There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.
	
	  Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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		The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.
	
	  Kyle Abraham Kyle Abraham
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		I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.
	
	  Karan Patel Karan Patel