Dance Quotes - Page 21

• How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

  Dar Williams

  Fall, Light, Long

  Song: Iowa

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• My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Men, Feet, Hay

  Edward II act 1, sc. 1 (1593)

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• I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

  Martha Graham

  Believe, Practice, Dancing

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• The worst thing I ever did is dance on the table.

  Tara Reid

  Tables, Worst, Worst Things

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• Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Country, Practice, Tennessee

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• If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

  Vanna Bonta

  Mirrors, Giving, Spotlight

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• Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Dancing, Conversation

  Walter Savage Landor, Marguerite Blessington (Countess of), John Francis Mariani (1973). “The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington”

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• The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.

  Evan Esar

  Firsts, Modern, Modern Dance

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• Love like you'll never be hurt.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Hurt

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• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  Gary Sinise

  Dream, Scene, Hopkins

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• From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Art, Mean, Dancing

  "Wizards, Geisha and a Gorilla Hit the Flicks", www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2005.

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• If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Home, Night, Shoes

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• It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

  Bette Midler

  Fear, Philosophy, Taken

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• Work like you don't need the money.

  Joseph Joubert

  Work, Hippie, Live Life

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• I've done everything but tap dance across the table.

  Rod Paige

  Done, Tables, Tap Dance

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• You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.

  Martha Graham

  Motivation, Believe, Vitality

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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• Meeting up with Paris and Paris was such a highlight in Greece. Dancing at the clubs was a blast. There are just certain people you know you'll always have fun with, and Paris Hilton is definitely one of those people.

  Tara Reid

  Fun, Paris, People

  "Tara Reid visits Paris and Paris". www.today.com. August 5, 2005.

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  Vaughn Monroe

  Hair, Cake, People

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• I want people to look like people when they're dancing.

  Mark Morris

  People, Dancing, Looks

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• Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

  Chinua Achebe

  Girl, Dancing, Important

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• Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

  Chinua Achebe

  Beats

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.46, Heinemann

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• Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.

  Evan Esar

  Girl, Wells, Intermission

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• One you've danced, you always dance.

  Judith Jamison

  Essence, December 1988.

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• Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.

  Baker Brownell

  Art, Movement, Stones

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• I feel amazing right now. I just feel like dancing.

  Venus Williams

  Dancing, Feels, Right Now

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