Dancer Quotes - Page 21

• I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Chosen

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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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• I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Ballet, World

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.

  Misty Copeland

  Hip Hop, Ballet, Culture

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.

  Misty Copeland

  Letting Go, Thinking, People

  Source: bknation.org

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• society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Sex, Athlete, Qualms About

  Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books

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• All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Music, Dance, Drama

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• Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.

  Susan Griffin

  Eye, Reflection, Self

  Susan Griffin (2001). “The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues”, Broadway

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• Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

  Judith Jamison

  Dance, Threshold

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• I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Medical, Praying, Dental

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• The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Air, Ballet, Earth

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• The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

  Vera Caspary

  Cat, Feet, Ballet

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• There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.

  Alec Sulkin

  Horse, Gay, Black And White

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.

  Lizzy Caplan

  School, Kids, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many. Truth is barbed: if it comforts, it lies. Truth is an armed dancer.

  Robert Grudin

  Truth, Lying, Reality

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a great gift. But you also know this, for your work, for your passion, every day is a rededication. Painters, dancers, actors, writers, filmmakers. It's the same for all of you, all of us. Every step is a first step. Every brush stroke is a test. Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. So, let the learning continue.

  Martin Scorsese

  Passion, School, Blow

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