Dancer Quotes - Page 36

• We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"

  Bill T. Jones

  Dance, Artist, Ego

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• Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Dance, Determination, Artist

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.

  Jose Limon

  Dance, Tired, Dancing

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• The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.

  Lucian

  Dance, Voice, Lips

  Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

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• We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.

  Harold Nicholas

  Dance, Style, Footwork

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

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• Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the dance. There is no dancer separate from dance, no dance separate from the dancer.

  Rajneesh

  Dance, Dancing, Ego

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• A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.

  Patrick Swayze

  Dance, Dancing, Soul

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• I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Dream, Becoming The Best

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dance, Silly, People

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• When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on.  Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices.  You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be  Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality.  They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Attitude, People, Choices

  "Loners". www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2005.

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• What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Hate, Thinking, Giving

  "Astaire, the biography". Book by Tim Satchell, 1987.

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• In Hinduism, Shiva the Cosmic Dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic universe. Through his dance, Shiva sustains the manifold phenomena in the world, unifying all things by immersing them in his rhythm and making them participate in the dance - a magnificent image of the dynamic unity of the Universe.

  Fritjof Capra

  Dance, Perfect, Unity

  Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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• Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.

  Michael Jackson

  Dance, Eye, Dancing

  "Dangerous". Album by Michael Jackson, 1991.

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• I very much like dance and dancers.

  Issey Miyake

  Dance

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• When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

  Craig Claiborne

  Moving, Food, Dancing

  "Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations". Book by Susan L. Rattiner, September 19, 2012.

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• You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.

  Renaldo Nehemiah

  Motivational, Running, Track

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• I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.

  Rod Milburn

  Running, Track, Ballet

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• I'm a dancer so anything related to dance I love to do. I also tried Zumba last week. That thing is tough! 15 minutes in I was going for a water break. It wasn't easy!

  Patti Stanger

  Inspirational, Dance, Zumba

  "Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger's Weight-Loss Secrets". Interview with Karen Borsari, www.shape.com.

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• The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, Body, Remember

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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• Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

  Anna Paskevska

  Dance, Children, Discipline

  Anna Paskevska (2013). “Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course”, p.6, Routledge

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• I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a diehard dancer so I was constantly at dance classes and working toward my passion of dance.

  Jenna Dewan

  Passion, Class, Outgoing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer.

  Eugene Hutz

  Girl, Want, Premium

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• Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

  Paul Pearsall

  Marriage, Process, Findings

  Paul P. Pearsall, Paul Pearsall (1991). “The Power of the Family”, Bantam Books

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• Americanomics works, and I won't argue that is true.
  But if the economy is getting better, getting better for who?
  Well, if you ask me, I'm doing much worse than before,
  With the welfare cuts, I don't eat no more.
  So if I did wanna go out, I couldn't go nowhere,
  Cause I ate every last one of them reindeer.
  Rudolph first, I went down the list,
  I got so hungry, I just couldn't resist.
  I ate Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Dixon,
  Fried them up and then started to mix them.
  And before you knew it, they were all gone,
  I wonder what y'all gonna do about my reindeer song!

  Kool Moe Dee

  Song, Rap, Cutting

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• I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

  Kevin McKenzie

  Art, Thinking, Ballet

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