Dance Quotes - Page 23

• Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.

  Martha Graham

  Hard Work, People, Bones

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.

  Martha Graham

  Heart, Fever, Body

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• Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Dancer

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• To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Art, Honesty, Oneself

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• My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

  Mata Hari

  Movement, Sacred, Temples

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• Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Ballet, Way, Profession

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• Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Children, Jumping, Joy

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• The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Civilization, Special, World

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• To dance is human, to polka is divine.

  K. D. Lang

  Divine, Polka, Humans

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• All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Music, Drama, Artist

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• Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

  Judith Jamison

  Dancer, Threshold

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• As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dancing, Way, Natural

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• I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

  Natalia Makarova

  Erotic, Feelings, Spirit

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• crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dancing, Half, November

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• I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.

  Ethel Smyth

  Passion, Dancing, Wish

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• The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Attitude, Self Esteem, Acceptance

  "Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 235), 1992.

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• Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Thinking, Play

  All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988)

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• My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

  Robert Fulghum

  Sweet, Night, Goal

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• The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Love Yourself, Writing

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• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Art, Body

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• I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

  Ashley Greene

  Inspirational, Swimming, Hiking

  Interview With Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

  David Guetta

  Inspirational, People, Community

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

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• When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Inspirational, Forget Everything, Feels

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

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• I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Thinking, Hip Hop

  "Talib Kweli On ReGENERATION Activism Documentary And Being ABBAACCSS1‘Conscious’ Rapper". Interview with Seamus McKiernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2012.

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• I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party girl'. I hate that. I bust my ass when I'm filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Inspirational, Girl, Hate

  "In brief: Watching Babel may make you sick". www.theguardian.com. May 03, 2007.

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