Dance Quotes
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When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh.
Carol Burnett
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My love for dance was so strong.
Phyllis Smith
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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 think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.
Merce Cunningham
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That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.
Debbie Reynolds
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You want to hit people's ears to make them want to dance in their kitchen. So that is what a hit is to me.
Andy Grammer
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Dance is the product of the necessity for pure emotional expression.
Russell Meriwether Hughes
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Making people dance has another function that has nothing to do with art, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. It's like food - if you're not eating it, you're doing something wrong. If they're not dancing, something is wrong.
James Murphy
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The Bolshoi style is bigger and more emotional, in a way that I love. It has the freshness and intensity that is like what I've tried to achieve in my dance-acting roles.
David Hallberg
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When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
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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 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 held out my hand and George Mitchell said, "Like in everything else, you lead and I'll follow." And the crowd broke up, and we did a twirl or two around the dance floor. And that's like him, you know, he was there for his members, he campaigned for us, he believed in us, and he was really a good sport as well.
Barbara Mikulski
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I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
Fred Astaire
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It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.
Donna McKechnie
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Everyone knows how physically demanding 'Newsies' is in terms of the dance, but even the guys in the toughest tracks remark that the singing in this show is often the hardest part. The newsboys are teenagers, and Alan Menken wrote this music in the top of a guy's range.
Andrew Keenan-Bolger
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And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
Lynn Johnston
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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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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.
T. S. Eliot
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If you want to make people dance, you need to follow certain rules. Build-ups and breaks and stuff. I like to be free. On top of it all, I never really felt that I'm good at making fat-sounding dance tracks.
Sascha Ring
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If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
Isadora Duncan
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Tonight I feel like all of creation is asking us to dance.
Kathy Mattea
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The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.
Ben Mendelsohn
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Look tonight at the stars. Let them overwhelm you in the postures of their bright dance. Face the vastness which they dot like silver bees, and sound with your own brain the mystery, hazarding at the inscrutable plan of things.
R. H. Barlow