Dancer Quotes - Page 36

• Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.

  Michael Jackson

  Mistake, Thinking, Feels

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• A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

  Steve Lacy

  Athlete, Artist, Comedian

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• In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Tables, Globalization, Garments

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• I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.

  Emanuel Steward

  Athlete, Men, Rays

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• I've reached a point where I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I'm built the way I am. The dancer's feet, the bruises on my legs, they're not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Fun, Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

  Misty Copeland

  Girl, Hair, Rocks

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• As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

  Betty Grable

  Girl, Rivals, Singers

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• The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Rain, Space, Sky

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Death, Disappointment, Mean

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• The moon has become a dancer
  at this festival of LOVE.

  Rumi

  Moon, Festivals

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The PrIVILeged Lovers”

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• If you have a body you are a dancer

  Gabrielle Roth

  Body, Ifs

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• Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Twinkling, Dance Life

  "Dancing The Dream". Book by Michael Jackson, 1992.

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• My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Son, Trying, Endeavour

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• Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Actors, Born, Good Actors

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• For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Artist, Vocabulary, Entertainment

  "Laurieann Gibson: ‘Backup dancer’ isn’t even in my vocabulary". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 27, 2011.

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• When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, Hands, Years

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dancing, Flying, Bliss

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• It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Angel, Dancing, Flying

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• Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, Lying, Men

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled
  shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!

  Marianne Moore

  Shoes, White, Dancing

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.132, Penguin

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• Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Competition, Actors

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• You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
  Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,
  The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
  And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, House, Clay

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Come swish around my pretty punk
  And keep me dancing still
  That I may stay a sober man
  Although I drink my fill.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Men, Dancing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.268, Wordsworth Editions

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• ... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Dance, Kind, Conscious

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• The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

  Ellen Goodman

  Children, Artist, Average

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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