Dancer Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.

  Sharni Vinson

  Horse, Athlete, Names

  "Sharni Vinson Talks You’re Next, Playing the Survivalist Girl, Embracing the Film’s Stunts, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 21, 2013.

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• I'm a terrible dancer. Terrible. Just the pits. And I had to do these cheerleading things and it was just cringe-worthy. I mean, I'm so bad, so that was painful.

  Selma Blair

  Cheerleading, Mean, Painful

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• I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.

  Sutton Foster

  Moving, Thinking, Singers

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Drowsy Chaperone's Sutton Foster Plus Pajama Game on Disc". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 12, 2006.

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• So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

  Sutton Foster

  People, Ballet, Training

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• I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

  Kid Rock

  Peace, Cancer, Rocks

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• I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Two, Eight, Ballet

  "Jessica Brown Findlay's Sybil Liberties". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2012.

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• You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Ballet, Matter, Realizing

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• I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

  Felicity Jones

  My Own, Freestyle

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• Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Song, Nuts

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• I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  People, Dancing, Sick

  "Harry Shum Jr: I love that people see dancers as artists now". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came to be.

  Jenna Jameson

  Years, Ballerina, Wanted

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• I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

  Judith Jamison

  Sacrifice, Thinking, My Family

  "Portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2007.

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• Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.

  John Mellencamp

  Honesty, Real, Mean

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• I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.

  Tina Turner

  Dancing, Want, What You Want

  FaceBook post by Tina Turner from Aug 13, 2016

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• There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

  Bob Seger

  Social Taboos, Long, Lovely

  Song: Mainstreet, Album: Night Moves, 1976

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• I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Theatre, Actresses, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  Natalia Makarova

  Simple, Giving, Perfection

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

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