Dancer Quotes - Page 20

• Well, I am as much a cheerleader for President Obama as Sen. McConnell is a Chippendale dancer.

  Alison Lundergan Grimes

  President, Cheerleader, Wells

  "Alison Lundergan Grimes Talks Abortion As She Unfurls Policy Positions" By Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2013.

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• Evolved? As a dancer? Me? I don’t fall down as much, unless it’s part of the scripted dance. I don’t step on other people’s toes anymore. I think if I started the show a one out of ten dancer, now I am a two and a half.

  Cory Monteith

  Fall, Thinking, Two

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• A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

  Eleanor Powell

  Frustrated, Tap Dancers, Drummer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.

  Paula Abdul

  Strong, Men, Suits

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• The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

  Brooke Langton

  Broadway, Cheerleader, Film

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• I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.

  Briana Evigan

  Guy, Teach, Wanted

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

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• I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Belly

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• I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

  Gene Kelly

  Pirate, Pittsburgh, Wanted

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

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• I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

  Gene Kelly

  Athlete, College, Want

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• For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Feet, Done, Actresses

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• A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

  Liz Sheridan

  New York, Cities, Long

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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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• Every day I go out and climb, like a dancer who works on his dance. He probably has some goals, some pieces he would like to perform, but his main goal is to work on his dance. This is how he expresses himself. Both he and I are interested in the same thing. It’s the dance that counts.

  John Bachar

  Goal, Pieces, Climbs

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• Big Bang may not be the best looking and may not be the best dancers out there,but each member holds a distinct individuality as a weapon that allows them to perform freely

  Yang Hyun-suk

  Individuality, Bangs, May

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• How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.

  Paul Provenza

  Play, Actors, Painter

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• I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

  Cecil Taylor

  Piano, Space, Trying

  "Innovation, improvisation". Interview with Miya Masaoka, www.miyamasaoka.com. October 25, 2000.

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• My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.

  Bobby Burgess

  Teaching, Kids, Wonderful

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• No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.

  Aldo Leopold

  Sunset, Sky, Two

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.34, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

  Martha Graham

  Use, Way, Sometimes

  "Martha Graham Google Doodle Celebrates the Dancer and Choreographer's 117th Birthday" by Laura Roberts, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 11, 2011.

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• I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which will correct physical faults and prepare a dancer for any type of dancing he may wish to follow; a technique having all the basic movements which govern the actions of the body; combined with a knowledge of the origin of movement and a sense of artistic design.

  Lester Horton

  Dance, Knowledge, Exercise

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• We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

  George Balanchine

  Art, Believe, Independent

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

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• I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's the actor informing the dancer. So I worked on my acting and gradually developed a singing voice.

  Liza Minnelli

  Moving, Voice, Ballet

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• In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers to divide their time and studies between the mind and the body, and that both become the object of their application; but, unfortunately, all is given to the latter and nothing to the former. The legs are rarely guided by the brain, and, since intelligence and taste do not reside in the feet, one often goes astray.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Feet, Order

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• The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply themselves only to the material side of their art, they learn to jump more or less high, they strive mechanically to execute a number of steps, and like children, who utter a great many words devoid of sense and relation, they execute many phrases of steps devoid of taste and grace.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Children, Numbers

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• All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.

  Camara Laye

  Ballet, Beats, Tendencies

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