Dancer Quotes - Page 28

• Two children, all alone and no one by,
  Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze
  Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet
  Dance sedately; face to face they gaze,
  Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.

  Laurence Binyon

  Children, Eye, Two

  Laurence Binyon (1926). “Laurence Binyon”

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• You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.

  Wendy Whelan

  Moving, Years, Dancing

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• Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry.

  Johnny Mercer

  Dancing, Taught, Arthur

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• The quivering
  of Psyche's butterflies.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Butterfly, Dancing

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.260, New Directions Publishing

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• For you are abstract,
  making no mistake,
  slurring no word
  in the rhythm you make,
  the poem,
  writ in the air.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Mistake, Air, Dancing

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• You are wind in a stark tree,
  you are the stark tree unbent,
  you are a strung bow,
  you are an arrow.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Wind, Arrows, Dancing

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• Shall we go dance the hay, the hay?
  Never pipe could ever play
  Better shepherd's roundelay.

  Nicholas Breton

  Play, Dancing, Shepherds

  Nicholas Breton (1927). “Phillida and Coridon: and other pastorals”

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• If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.

  Mia Hamm

  Hips, Gymnast, Ifs

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• It is not easy to free
  myth from reality
  or rear this fellow up
  to lutch, lurch with them
  in the tranced dancing of men.

  Earle Birney

  Reality, Men, Dancing

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• You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Smart, Age, Looks

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• Coming from being a dancer, it was a great way for me to transition into being an actress. I get to really be expressive through my physical self, and that was just a comfortable way for me to start experimenting with how to get my character across.

  Summer Glau

  Character, Self, Transition

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• Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, Brother, Heart

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• I have forgiven all the old actors for dying.
  A new one comes on with the same lines,
  like large white growths, in his mouth.
  The dancers come on from the wings,
  perfectly mated.

  Anne Sexton

  Wings, White, Growth

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Dance, Long, Mad

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• Yes, I would (be a big hit on Dancing with the Stars), but I don't think I can be wearing those tight outfits they have on there. I'm a very good dancer. I'm the John Travolta of Venezuela. If I was one of the 'Jersey Shore' guys and I had their stomach, then hell yeah I would do it.

  Ozzie Guillen

  Stars, Thinking, Dancing

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• Pamela Anderson is a great dancer considering she can't see her feet.

  David Letterman

  Feet, Dancing, Considering

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• anyone lived in a pretty how town
  (with up so floating many bells down)
  spring summer autumn winter
  he sang his didn't he danced his did.

  e. e. cummings

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  '50 Poems' (1949) no. 29

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• Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Wall, Order, Dancing

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• Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Eye, Fire

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• Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

  Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

  Men, Rope, Honest

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• Listen, sister. I don't dance and I can't take time out now to learn.

  Frank Wead

  Sister, Dance, War

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• It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.

  James Kavanaugh

  Feet, Dancing, Mud

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• I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.

  Martha Graham

  Mean, Trying

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.

  Amanda Schull

  Children, Years, Careers

  "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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• Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

  Amanda Schull

  Single Mom, Careers, Appreciate

  "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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