Dance Quotes
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When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.
Angeles Arrien
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On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.
Anthony Trollope
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Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of solitude. No flashbacks and no backstory. Let's have no more back story!
Colm Toibin
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Dance as if no one's watching, love as if it's never going to hurt.
Stuart Appleby
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I'd rather dance than eat.
Eleanor Powell
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Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?
Mahatma Gandhi
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We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
Muhammad Ali
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From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.
Rita Hayworth
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Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.
Gabrielle Roth
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To dance, put your hand on your heart and listen to the sound of your soul.
Eugene Louis Faccuito
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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.
William Blake
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There's a difference between being an actress who can sing and being a Sally Song-and-Dance.
Anna Kendrick
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Those who will not dance will have to be shot
Sun Ra
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Steve Martin
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What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.
Arthur Mitchell
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Dance every performance as if it were your last.
Erik Bruhn
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Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
Eve Ensler
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Dance is the mathematics of the Soul
Nelly Mazloum
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My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.
Elvis Costello
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I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.
Willie Stargell
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DNCE is “dance without the a.” It’s not a perfect word, and you don’t always have to be a perfect dancer to dance. Life is just sometimes not perfect.
Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
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I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.
Dule Hill
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He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.
Emily Bronte