Dancing Quotes - Page 3

• It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

  Louise Brown

  Girl, Believe, Book

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• How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.

  George Murphy

  Airplane, Law, Practice

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• And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Would Be, Want, Chosen

  "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

  Robert Palmer

  Musical, Trying, Architecture

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• It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

  Deborah Bull

  Strong, Feet, Technique

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• Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

  Clive James

  Nails, Giants, Knocking

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• Dancing came easy to me.

  Hedda Hopper

  Easy

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• Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

  Deborah Bull

  Careers, Ballet, Royal

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• I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

  Deborah Bull

  Interesting, Doe, Body

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• Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

  Carmen Electra

  Dance, Children, Love Is

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• There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Pain, Sacrifice, World

  "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Healthy, Ballet, Important

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

  Klaus Schulze

  Body, Spirit, Humans

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• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  Parker Stevenson

  Used

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• One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.

  Sarah Sutton

  Orchids, Black, Different

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• When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see.

  Pharrell Williams

  People

  "New Again: Pharrell Williams". Interview with Michael Jackson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Devil, Helping, Capers

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• Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.

  William Prynne

  Dance, Pride, Men

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• Just start dancing and the band will find you.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Band, Ecstasy

  Tama J. Kieves (2003). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Feet

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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  The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Lying, Women

  Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, God, Philosophy

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• I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Change, Dance

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