Dancing Quotes - Page 13

• I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, Powerful, People

  "Talking With Ani DiFranco". Interview with Alexander Billet, www.counterpunch.org. January 24, 2012.

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• It's been part of my signature to incorporate my humor with my dance, or even just how I'm feeling. If I'm feeling humorous, which I am, most of the day, I tend to incorporate that. If I'm dancing freestyle, if I feel like I've gotten too serious, while I'm moving, I'll think, "All right, it's time to lighten up a little bit," and I do. It just feels good.

  Stephen Boss

  Humorous, Moving, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.

  Stephen Boss

  Dancer, Feelings, Ridiculous

  Source: collider.com

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• I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Running, Country, Jobs

  "Interrogation: Strictly's Len and Bruno". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. April 6, 2008.

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• I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human - but then you always have to conform to the social conventions around you, and those two things get to be juxtaposed against each other. You're being human, but you're trapped within the social convention of the time.

  Jenna Coleman

  Drama, Two, Being Human

  "Doctor Who’s Impossible Girl". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2014.

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• Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.

  Jillian Hervey

  Thinking, Voice, Training

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

  Carrie Coon

  Children, Thoughtful, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed-more I cannot say.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Lying, Archer, Knowing

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• The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.

  Epicurus

  Drinking, Sea, Choices

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• ...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

  Moliere

  Dance, Skills, Leader

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• When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing.

  Earl Derr Biggers

  Needs

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• Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?

  Zainab Salbi

  Falling In Love, War, Live Life

  "How Do People Live and Cope In The Midst Of Violent Conflict?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 11, 2016.

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• Life is like dancing...changing all the time.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life Is Like, Life Is

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• I did have a Huggy Beardoll. One of his legs fell off. That empty leg became a place where, when we were doing a lot of drugs on tour at one point, we would store the drugs in his empty leg. That's where the term 'dancing with the one-legged man' on Smells Like Children came from, because whenever anyone was doing drugs we called it the 'dance of the one-legged man.' That became a ritualistic thing that was funny for awhile.

  Marilyn Manson

  Children, Men, Smell

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• The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.

  Boy George

  Dressing Up, Hip Hop, Sound

  "Taboo". Interview With Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Thinking, Numbers, Age

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• Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fun, Sleep, Games

  Carl Sandburg. (1954). “The Family of Man”

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• Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance inside themselves without you.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Tired, Sleep, Shoes

  Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press

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• Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth

  Ruth St. Denis

  Flower, Years, Inward

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• The 1980's witnessed a new dance genre in New York City and Los Angeles. Slam Dancing was perhaps a way for adolescent males to deal with the stressors of maturation, aggressive personal feelings, and violence in the society at large. Through dancing, the youths expressed raw power and rage while achieving euphoria, enhanced self-concept, and a healthy fatigue.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  New York, Cities, Self

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.175, Rowman Altamira

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• I hate working out, but I love jumping rope. Theres a rhythm. It's like dancing.

  Katy Perry

  Hate, Jumping, Work Out

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• I love dancing to Latin music, so I have a trainer who dances with me for an hour three times a week.

  Sofia Vergara

  Latin, Three, Week

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• Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

  Neil Simon

  Typewriters, Long, Laughing

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• Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.

  Nita Ambani

  Philosophy, Profound, Cosmos

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• A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

  Clive James

  Common Sense, Common, Humour

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