Dancer Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• As a singer you're a great dancer.

  Amy Leslie

  Singers

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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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• It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

  Doris Day

  Stars, Ambition, Hollywood

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• Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Musician, Backup, Respectable

  "Mike Birbiglia Talks About 'I'm In The Future Also' Tour". Washington Post Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. October 07, 2009.

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• Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

  Johnny Carson

  Rose, President, Dinner

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• Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Kids, Littles, Poor

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• I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

  Kari Matchett

  Art, Singers, Stuff

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• In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer. I'm saying that and someone's going to be born tomorrow who decides to do that and I'm going to have my foot in my mouth.

  Joan Chen

  Order, Feet, Ballet

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• I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.

  Joan Chen

  Competition, Ballet, Firsts

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• 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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