Dancing Quotes - Page 16

• Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

  Rumi

  Ears, Daylight, Particles

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• Running with dogs is like dancing with winter

  Gary Paulsen

  Running, Dog, Winter

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• When we were younger, my cousins used to jump in front of cars with masks on and start dancing really funny or making funny moves and the people in the cars would start laughing.

  Leo Santa Cruz

  Cousin, Moving, People

  "PBC fighters share spooktacular Halloween memories". PBC interview, www.premierboxingchampions.com. October 30, 2015.

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• Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

  Grace Jones

  Growing Up, Thinking, Jamaica

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• I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, Powerful, People

  "Talking With Ani DiFranco". Interview with Alexander Billet, www.counterpunch.org. January 24, 2012.

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• It's been part of my signature to incorporate my humor with my dance, or even just how I'm feeling. If I'm feeling humorous, which I am, most of the day, I tend to incorporate that. If I'm dancing freestyle, if I feel like I've gotten too serious, while I'm moving, I'll think, "All right, it's time to lighten up a little bit," and I do. It just feels good.

  Stephen Boss

  Humorous, Moving, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Running, Country, Jobs

  "Interrogation: Strictly's Len and Bruno". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. April 6, 2008.

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• I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human - but then you always have to conform to the social conventions around you, and those two things get to be juxtaposed against each other. You're being human, but you're trapped within the social convention of the time.

  Jenna Coleman

  Drama, Two, Being Human

  "Doctor Who’s Impossible Girl". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2014.

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• I have a trainer, and I'm not a trainer person. I don't like the attention. I don't like the one-on-one scrutiny. But I've had to enter into a very sort of rigorous rehabilitation program to avoid surgery on my back. I've already had four surgeries on my feet and two on my knee - all from Broadway dancing injuries. On Broadway, they don't really rehab the dancers like they do in sports. It's, "The show must go on" .

  Brooke Shields

  Sports, Dancer, Attention

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• The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed-more I cannot say.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Lying, Archer, Knowing

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• The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.

  Boy George

  Dressing Up, Hip Hop, Sound

  "Taboo". Interview With Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Thinking, Numbers, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fun, Sleep, Games

  Carl Sandburg. (1954). “The Family of Man”

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• Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance inside themselves without you.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Tired, Sleep, Shoes

  Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press

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• The 1980's witnessed a new dance genre in New York City and Los Angeles. Slam Dancing was perhaps a way for adolescent males to deal with the stressors of maturation, aggressive personal feelings, and violence in the society at large. Through dancing, the youths expressed raw power and rage while achieving euphoria, enhanced self-concept, and a healthy fatigue.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  New York, Cities, Self

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.175, Rowman Altamira

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• I hate working out, but I love jumping rope. Theres a rhythm. It's like dancing.

  Katy Perry

  Hate, Jumping, Work Out

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• Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

  Neil Simon

  Typewriters, Long, Laughing

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• My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

  Chris Klein

  Competition, Style, Acting

  "Chris Klein and Mena Suvari Talk AMERICAN REUNION, WILFRED and AMERICAN HORROR STORY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• I did do a little research. I went to a couple really fantastic strip clubs with really talented dancers, just in terms of their physical prowess. For the scene, there was a whole dance routine that I had to do, so I worked with a pole dance instructor who helped me choreograph a number for that scene. We broke down the principles of pole dancing, for three days, for an hour a day.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Couple, Numbers, Dancer

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• As a professional, as a person, and as a player, I think he's fantastic. It's like he's dancing the tango. I just love how he plays football so elegantly. To me, Andres is Don Andres.

  Dani Alves

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
  What masque, what music? How shall we beguile
  The lazy time if not with some delight?

  William Shakespeare

  Dancer, Lazy, Delight

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.125, Cambridge University Press

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• Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
  To wear away this long age of three hours
  Between our after-supper and bedtime?

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Long, Dancer

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.176

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• I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have
  been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dancer, Enemy, Flattery

  William Shakespeare, Alan Brissenden (1998). “As You Like it”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I was once dancing with a woman who told me she had a yeast infection so I told her to bake me some bread.

  George Carlin

  Yeast, Bread, Infection

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• Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web.

  Demetri Martin

  Looks, Spiders, Sometimes

  Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is A Book”, p.28, Penguin UK

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