Dancer Quotes - Page 22

• People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

  Edgar Degas

  People, Wish, Movement

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• Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now old and broken , creaking in the breeze -- turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.

  Ted Kooser

  Winter, Light, Blue

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• I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a performer. I'm an actress. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. It makes me a better parent, a better person. I think I can just handle more than the average bear, you know?

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mother, Thinking, Average

  "Jennifer Lopez: February 2013 Cover" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 3, 2013.

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• Be Strong. You Never Know Who You Are Inspiring. My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.

  Sunidhi Chauhan

  Mother, Strong Women, Role Models

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• Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many. Truth is barbed: if it comforts, it lies. Truth is an armed dancer.

  Robert Grudin

  Truth, Lying, Reality

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Art, Paris

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “The East and the West: (Prachya o Paschatya)”, p.59, editionNEXT.com

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• I became a dancer late and an actor late.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Actors, Late

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• Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Training, Difficult, Hard

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• I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Ballet, Training, Fosse

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• Out of 10 how enthusiastic a dancer am I? 11

  Tom Hiddleston

  Enthusiastic

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• I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

  Lyndsy Fonseca

  Way, Really Sad, Performing

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

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• I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me.

  Trey Songz

  Needs, Causes, Brown

  "Interview: Trey Songz Talks Complex Fashion Shoot and Musical Influences". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. April 17, 2010.

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• I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

  Emily Mortimer

  Writing, School, Annoyed

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• The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it’s gone on for too long. Nothing would make me happier than having a company that reflects society, to have dancers onstage that people can relate to.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Art, Ideas, White

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• When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a great gift. But you also know this, for your work, for your passion, every day is a rededication. Painters, dancers, actors, writers, filmmakers. It's the same for all of you, all of us. Every step is a first step. Every brush stroke is a test. Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. So, let the learning continue.

  Martin Scorsese

  Passion, School, Blow

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• I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

  Rosie Perez

  Thinking, Needs, Stories

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• I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

  John Mellencamp

  Art, New York, League

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• I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighting, Thinking

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• Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Rocks, Orange

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.19, Penguin

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• All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

  William T. Wiley

  Beauty, School, Kids

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• I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

  Terry Riley

  Technology, Tape, Matter

  Interview with Gamall Awad and Ammon Haggerty, www.qaswa.com. October 9, 1992.

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• Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Art, Peace, Live Your Life

  "A New Earth". Book by Eckhart Tolle, October 6, 2005.

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• No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

  Brian Herbert

  Heart, Soul, Faces

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2003). “Dune: House Harkonnen”, p.689, Spectra

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• In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either.

  Katherine Catmull

  Artist, Bird, Wire

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• Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Stars, Intuition, Mentor

  Deborah Eisenberg (2016). “Twilight of the Superheroes”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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