Dancer Quotes - Page 14

• I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer.

  Liana Liberato

  Past, Abby, Honestly

  Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• What keeps me motivated is that I'm going to do a bunch of projects with dancers, and the people who compel me and make me love dance again are the ones I want to hire because they'll do that for others who are watching the thing. So yeah, it is difficult to crush dream sometimes, but they're all professional and they know what the deal is.

  Jon M. Chu

  Crush, Dream, People

  Source: collider.com

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• What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

  Martha Graham

  Passion, Technique

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• While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster, the dancer battles the air around her, air that threatens at any moment to destroy her harmony or to open huge open empty spaces where her rhythm will be annihilated.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Horse, Eye, Air

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• The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

  Louis L'Amour

  Writing

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• I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

  Duane Michals

  Mean, Needs, Photographer

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• Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

  George Balanchine

  Two, Stories, Enough

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• The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement of the past and what will be its movement of the future. We realize that the movement peculiar to its nature is eternal to its nature. The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body.

  Isadora Duncan

  Beach, Ocean, Past

  "The Art of the Dance" edited by Sheldon Cheney, (p. 54), 1928.

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• It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects

  Martha Graham

  Lying, Order, Years

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• Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Discovery, Self, May

  Judith Lynne Hanna (1988). “Dance and stress: resistance, reduction, and euphoria”, Ams Pr Inc

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• Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Mother, Theater

  Source: collider.com

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• As a dancer, I was always the physical comedy girl. I love it so much.

  Anne Fletcher

  Girl, Comedy, Physical Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• Even today when I rehearse, I give it everything that I've got. If I'm in a performance and the lights go out, I glow in the dark. When you're working before an audience, you have to make them feel like they can touch you. That's the dancer within, reaching out.

  Mitzi Gaynor

  Dark, Light, Giving

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• Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Ego, Forget

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• All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

  Al Pacino

  Trying, Modest, Dues

  "10 Questions for Al Pacino". Interview with Rebecca Winters Keegan, content.time.com. June 14, 2007.

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• There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.

  Richard Gilman

  Appreciation, Desire, Technique

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• With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Girl, Respect, Stomach

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• I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

  Joan Chen

  Lakes, Swans, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm the only person on Earth who's not afraid to admit that black people are better dancers than white people! I said it, I said it! You were all thinking it, I said it!

  Carlos Mencia

  Thinking, White, People

  "Mind of Mencia". Sketch-comedy Series, 2005-2008.

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• In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Eight, Ballet, News

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• I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

  Lady Gaga

  "Lady Gaga Arrives at Grammys in Giant Egg" by Sheila Marikar and Eileen Murphy, abcnews.go.com. February 13, 2011.

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• Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

  Dustin Diamond

  Entertainment, Form, Just Live

  "Interviews: Celebrities from 1980s to Beyond at 'The Hollywood Show'". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I'm not a dancer, and it was very time-consuming. But I met great people, and it was flattering to be asked to be on. You don't understand how demanding that show is until you're on the inside. That is real work. Real work!

  Wendy Williams

  Real, People, Mets

  Source: aalbc.com

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• We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Touching

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• I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals... or has just given me nightmares!

  Jake Epstein

  Art, Drama, School

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