Dance Quotes
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When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.
Cris Judd
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In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
George Balanchine
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I can dance to Beyonce, sing karaoke, create strategy, go on dates, and build a multi-billion company and show the world that women can build big businesses.
Jennifer Hyman
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I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
Margaret Atwood
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I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.
Matt Dillon
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Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.
Anton du Beke
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I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.
Matthew Morrison
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Dance must have a precision without fault.
Arielle Dombasle
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Dance is a great way to express yourself.
Darcey Bussell
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I love costumes in dance, I think it's very important. The clothes for dancing not only make you feel like somebody else, but it makes you move in a different way.
Blanca Li
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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
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It is very unnatural to dance while playing the violin. I had to practice so hard to learn how to do it, but now it is part of my expression, and it comes naturally. I have to know a song perfectly before I can even begin to move.
Lindsey Stirling
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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
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I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.
Morgan Freeman
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dance mehitabel dancecaper and shake a legwhat little blood is leftwill fizz like wine in a keg
Don Marquis
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Dance music has evolved very much. From DJs playing at the Olympics, to playing at the Super Bowl, working with Cirque Du Soleil and even getting recognized at the Grammys with awards, dance music is growing in a big way.
Little Louie Vega
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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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Everyone should dance. And everyone should sing. People say, 'Well, I can't sing.' Everybody can sing. That you do it badly is no reason not to sing.
Dick Van Dyke
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I think it's one thing to be able to dance, and it's another thing to learn all the wonderful moments of dance because in my day... it was the moving of dance.
Debbie Reynolds
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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
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I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.
Lexa Doig
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I realized that, for me, great records always moved me with the lyrics and the melodies. And so I said, 'I think I can do it now,' 'cause I found a team of people who understand I didn't want a record that was 'drop it, pop it, shake it' just 'cause I can dance.
Laurieann Gibson
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I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
Louise Brooks