Dancer Quotes - Page 20

• I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.

  Benjamin Walker

  Teacher, Art, Odds

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• This may sound weird but I miss traveling. I miss the road, seeing different places and being with the dancers and having fun. That feeling of being on the stage, knowing it's your best -- I love that. I needed a break. I needed to be hungry again.

  Britney Spears

  Fun, Knowing, Missing

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• A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Drinking

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.100, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?

  Alesha Dixon

  Way, Humans, Human Beings

  "Dixon Tipped for Strictly Success". news.bbc.co.uk. December 22, 2007.

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• An extraordinary dancer, whose blend of tautness and buoyancy is not only exciting but also suggestive of clarity and immediacy with which dance can communicate deep, conflicting emotions.

  Jennifer Dunning

  Buoyancy, Emotion, Clarity

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• I think the new ball is terrible. It's the worst decision some expert, whoever did it, made. It's terrible. It's like touching an exotic dancer and then going and touching a plastic blow-up doll. You know, it feels different.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Blow, Thinking, Nba

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• We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we're all about.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Running, Team

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• When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal thread, whether you're an athlete, a dancer, an actor or a singer. It's all about maintaining your body because that allows you to do what you do.

  Josh Peck

  Athlete, Needs, Maintenance

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• I absolutely love what I do. And I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I'm putting out there on the stage. But my goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT. Before I knew that there had never been a black woman, that was always my goal. I wanted to dance Odette-Odile and Kitri and "Don Quixote" and Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty." So that's still my goal. But knowing that it's never been done before, I think makes me fight even harder.

  Misty Copeland

  Sleep, Fighting, Thinking

  "Misty Copeland On Broadening 'Beauty' And Being Black In Ballet". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 9, 2014.

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• In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Tree, Lovely, Arms

  Cynthia Rylant (2015). “In November”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Julian Edelman. He's the worst dancer.

  Rob Gronkowski

  Worst

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• Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

  Agnes de Mille

  Girl, Dance, Running

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• To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Destiny, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (195?). “The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in one volume: including the poems, philosophic and inspirational essays, and biographical studies”

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• I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Workout, Morning

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Children, Forever

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Hard Work, People

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

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• Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Dance

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• Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Sweet, Artist, Light

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• I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Kids, People, Dancing

  "Q&A with ‘Orphan Black’ Star Tatiana Maslany". BBC America Interview, www.bbcamerica.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, I took my first yoga class in 1980 and knew from the start that it would be a lifelong passion.

  Rodney Yee

  Philosophy, Yoga, Passion

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• Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.

  Alois Podhajsky

  Teacher, Horse, Art

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• People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

  Edgar Degas

  People, Wish, Movement

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• Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now old and broken , creaking in the breeze -- turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.

  Ted Kooser

  Winter, Light, Blue

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• I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a performer. I'm an actress. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. It makes me a better parent, a better person. I think I can just handle more than the average bear, you know?

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mother, Thinking, Average

  "Jennifer Lopez: February 2013 Cover" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 3, 2013.

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• Be Strong. You Never Know Who You Are Inspiring. My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.

  Sunidhi Chauhan

  Mother, Strong Women, Role Models

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