Dancer Quotes - Page 2

• I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was

  Jennifer Lopez

  Trying, Singers, Actresses

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• I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

  Victoria Beckham

  Thinking, Relax, Acting

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• My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

  Jerry Hall

  My Favorite

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• But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

  Deborah Bull

  Skills, Achieve, Young

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• There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

  Leslie Caron

  Actresses, My Time, Jane

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• I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

  Harold Nicholas

  Brother, People, Ballet

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• It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Difficult, Justify

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

  John Guare

  Life, New York, Cities

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• I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Singers, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

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• I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

  Annette Funicello

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• By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

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• A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

  Sally Kirkland

  Awards, Race, Color

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• My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

  Elvis Stojko

  Mom, Dad, Singers

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• Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.

  Cesar Romero

  Father, Real, Careers

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• To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Time, Mean, Differences

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• I met my wife, Doreen, who was a dancer in the show.

  Ernie Wise

  Wife, Mets, Shows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

  Jackson Browne

  Song, Fire, Ideas

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• Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Holy Ground, Dancing

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• A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, People, Giving

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• Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Volleyball, Mean

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Dance, Dancing

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.79, Penguin

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• Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Dance, Sadness, Expression

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• Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

  Martha Graham

  Motivational, Dance, Song

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Ballet Class, Discipline

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• Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Dancing, Splits

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