Dancer Quotes - Page 39

• I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.

  Emanuel Steward

  Athlete, Men, Rays

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• I've reached a point where I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I'm built the way I am. The dancer's feet, the bruises on my legs, they're not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Fun, Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

  Misty Copeland

  Girl, Hair, Rocks

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• As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

  Betty Grable

  Girl, Rivals, Singers

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• The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Rain, Space, Sky

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Death, Disappointment, Mean

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• The moon has become a dancer
  at this festival of LOVE.

  Rumi

  Moon, Festivals

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The PrIVILeged Lovers”

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• If you have a body you are a dancer

  Gabrielle Roth

  Body, Ifs

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• Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Twinkling, Dance Life

  "Dancing The Dream". Book by Michael Jackson, 1992.

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• I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Women, Flames, People

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Light, Snapshots, Frozen

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• Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer -
  Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

  Manohla Dargis

  Independent, Wife, Pioneers

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• I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.

  Mika

  Moving, Order, Shapes

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• My dancers are the real stars.

  Michael Flatley

  Stars, Real

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• If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

  Robbie Robertson

  Play, Twenties, Fancy

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• O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!

  Witter Bynner

  Love, Love Is, Bosoms

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• The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.

  Philip Pullman

  Fire, Light, Sight

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

  Mordecai Richler

  Beauty, Men, Ballet

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• As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

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• Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Hard Work, Actresses, Diana

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• My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Son, Trying, Endeavour

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• Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Actors, Born, Good Actors

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• For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Artist, Vocabulary, Entertainment

  "Laurieann Gibson: ‘Backup dancer’ isn’t even in my vocabulary". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 27, 2011.

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• When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, Hands, Years

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dancing, Flying, Bliss

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