Dancing Quotes - Page 31

• Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Dance, Pain, Light

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• The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.

  Herman Melville

  Girl, Dance, Eye

  Herman Melville (1860). “Typee : a peep at polynesian life, during a four months residence in a valley of the Marquesas”, p.179

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• The really funny thing is that my mom and my dad never, ever, ever wanted me to be in this businessbut it just kind of happened. I blame it all on my mom who was still dancing on stage with me when she was however many months pregnant. I always say that I was dancing and acting in the belly. I feel like it’s something I was born with and inspired by my family since I grew up backstage, watching them perform. I guess it was just a natural path for me.

  Ksenia Solo

  Mom, Dad, Funny Things

  "Exclusive! ‘Black Swan’ Star Ksenia Solo Talks Nat Portman — and Chanel!". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. November 30, 2010.

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• I`m basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what`s known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.

  Donald O'Connor

  Moving, Order, Feet

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• Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance.

  Donald O'Connor

  Moving, Tunes, Catharsis

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• Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?

  Rita Hayworth

  Summer, Thinking, Tijuana

  The New York Times, October 25, 1970.

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• I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It!

  Bill Geist

  Men, Long, Aprons

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• Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.

  Rosie Perez

  Mean, Body, Faces

  "'Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.' —Rosie Perez" by Nelson George, www.esquire.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited.

  Richard Roxburgh

  Excited, Made, Kate

  "The Van Helsing Interviews: Richard Roxburgh". Interview, www.horror.com. May, 2003.

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• Pole dancing really isn't as easy as it looks.

  Carmen Electra

  Looks, Easy, Pole Dancing

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• No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is gone.

  Ann Coulter

  Politics, Gone, Poor

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.71, Crown Forum

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• At a party, I am the kind of girl who will wait until the end of the night before I really get going. I'm a little anti-social at first, but I'm not immune to dancing on tables either.

  Emily VanCamp

  Girl, Party, Night

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• Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.

  Caity Lotz

  Heart, Who I Am, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man's game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don't even have to do that - and they get to wear sneakers.

  Mitzi Gaynor

  Athlete, Men, Games

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

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• I've been dancing since I was 6 years old. That kind of relentless dedication and intensity is where I'm comfortable.

  Andrea Anders

  Dedication, Years, Kind

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• Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap dancing and vocabulary dumps that get in the way of the story you are telling. Once you accept that, what are you left with? You are left with the story you are telling.
  The story you are telling is only as good as the information in it: things you elicit, or things you observe, that make a narrative come alive; things that support your point not just through assertion, but through example; quotes that don’t just convey information, but also personality.

  Gene Weingarten

  Writing, Vocabulary, Personality

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• We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

  Raymond Khoury

  Men, Tunes, Thunderstorm

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• Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.

  Elvis Presley

  Years, Two Year Olds, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

  David Hockney

  Strong, Swimming, Men

  David Hockney (1978). “Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink”

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• Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

  Janet Jackson

  Real, Heart, Expression

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

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• For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Spiritual, Moving, Blood

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• The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Dad, Believe, Character

  "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Dance is a life, everyday. don't miss it. You're in bodies, you can move... Where is your joy?

  Mary Anthony

  Dance, Moving, Joy

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• He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life

  George Chuvalo

  Boxing, Bleeding, Kidneys

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• For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn't photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.

  Richard Avedon

  Children, Wine, Night

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