Dance Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		. . . your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				B. R. Hayden
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jennifer Lopez
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jean-Michel Jarre
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I just knew I loved music, and I wanted to do something in music, but I couldn't sing, I can't dance, I am an introvert. So I was like, 'What exactly is there for me to do? What can I do?' There's all these questions, there's all these things that are telling you 'no' instead of 'yes.' Those are the things I dealt a lot with, my insecurity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karen Civil
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've always loved to sing and dance, but the caliber of my talent in those areas obviously is not nearing Patti LuPone or Sutton Foster.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Emma Stone
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Conrad Sewell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		'Dirty Dancing', 'Grease', those were the movies that I used to watch over and over and over at my grandma's house when I was a little girl. I just remember watching them, and I always wanted to be Sandy, and I wanted to be Baby. I wanted to be the girl who's lifted in the dance, and she's beautiful and all those things.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kathryn McCormick
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A huge part of Irish dance is balance, which is so good for any kind of combat - just being aware of your body.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Annie Wersching
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I loved gymnastics, and my gymnastics teacher said ballet was essential to help my dance routines in competitions. I only really went because my friends were going as well. It wasn't this kind of hidden love. Then, slowly, my friends stopped going and I thought, 'I like this. I am going to stay.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Darcey Bussell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Psy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Most of the time you're playing the crazy girl or the stripper - always the stripper! I mean, how many strippers can I play. I can do a lap dance phenomenally, and that's not a good sign, because I'm not a stripper.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Diora Baird
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lesli Linka Glatter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight, nine hours at a time. He wouldn't drink, he wouldn't take drugs - he just danced because he had so much physical energy; he was this amazing athlete.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Martha Beck
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jake Pavelka
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was little I used to dance and model and that was fun. But I was always the person that was goofing off and I would memorize every line in every movie that I saw. And at recess that's what I would do, I would talk to my friends and recite movies.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ashley Benson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lewis H. Lapham