Dancing Quotes - Page 23

• I think dancing is contributed hugely to how I am as an actor, just a level of comfort in my body and in movement. Things can become strangely physically technical when you're acting, and often something that just feels so unnatural is actually what you need to do in a certain scene.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Thinking, Acting, Comfort

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Even if I'm exhausted, I always try to go into a show with a smile on my face. It's always good to try and bring the energy up. If I'm in a bad mood, people are going to act bad. The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I'm always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.

  Cara Delevingne

  Cheer, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I were money-motivated, I would spread insidious lies that marijuana is dangerous and addictive and leads to dancing with white women, that your children are at risk of riding that freight train straight into hell or an opium den. Then I'd parlay that fear into a chain of overpriced "rehab" centers that can cure them and shake Satan from their souls. But I am not that ambitious. I am a drunk.

  Doug Stanhope

  Children, Lying, Marijuana

  Source: hightimes.com

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• I learned dancing because I loved dancing. It took away the pain, it took away everything, I was happy when I was dancing. I got a lot of respect when I was dancing: people respected my art, they didn't only respect my body.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  Art, Pain, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Hijras earn a living by egging, sex work, badhai or blessing. There are now transgenders in social work, the fashion industry, who have PhDs. I say, "Study, study, study." You need not wear a sari, and even our ancestors said you need not wear feminine attire to be part of the third gender. When I started bar dancing, nobody else was doing it. When I joined the social sector in 1999, there were no nonprofit organizations working for the rights of hijras in India. But I had to do it, I wanted my dignity.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  Fashion, Blessing, Dignity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was really interested in the ritual of fire dancing. I saw it when I was a kid. My parents took me to the Black Sea, it was like a tourist attraction. I think it would be hard to find a Bulgarian who is not familiar with the image. I started reading about it, and I found out there are only two villages in Bulgaria were they still do it properly, where it's not for tourists, and they were both in the Strandja Mountains.

  Miroslav Penkov

  Reading, Kids, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening jazz is like Thelonius Monk or John Coltrane, where it's a listening experience. So that's what I like; I like to make stuff that you listen to. It's not really meant to get you up; it's meant to get your mind focused. That's why you sit and listen to jazz. You dance to big band or whatever, but for the most part, you sit and listen to jazz. I think it comes from that aesthetic, trying to take that jazz listening experience and put it on hip-hop.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Listening, Mind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My favorite thing is drums. I have a very, very big memory - and I don't have many big memories - of going to see the movie Tap, with Gregory Hines. During one scene, he's in jail, and there's some water dripping down, and he starts tap dancing. I just like that feeling of: "I'm in charge, I can do whatever I want."

  Fiona Apple

  Memories, Water, Feelings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's a very different feeling just sitting around the side, playing piano, and dancing around as opposed to standing in front and singing.

  Jonathan Meiburg

  Feelings, Singing, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The fabrics I've used in my work are satin and sateen. Sateen is very glossy and far from luxurious. Bright solid colors with too much sheen seem gaudy, pathetic and nostalgia-inducing. Such fabrics are reminiscent of the power of chaos in a shaman's space: overabundant offerings of food on alters, kitschy decorations, provocative shades, vigorous dancing, plaintive singing, absurd fits of crying and laughing, and self-abandonment.

  Hyon Gyon

  Laughing, Singing, Chaos

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People have so many expectations when they go out on stage, so many wishes about what their night is going to be: if they're going to meet that person, have a fun time with their friends, have a good high, hear good music. People get drunk and turn into themselves in a way, and they go to experience some kind of emotion. But it's not always about fun. There's a destructive side to it. But I'm more into the empowerment of going out, because it's always been the place where I could be myself and get inspired. Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.

  Robyn

  Fun, Night, Expectations

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The reason we do activism is because, maybe you haven't been raped or abused, but there are millions of people who can't say the same, and when you hear their stories you may be a little bit compelled. And it doesn't have to be dark. In the Congo, there are women who've been raped and re-raped, and they're so powerful, and they can carry trees on their heads, and they're dancing!

  Rosario Dawson

  Powerful, Dark, People

  "Rosario Dawson Acts Up". Interview With Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2011.

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• I have a trainer, and I'm not a trainer person. I don't like the attention. I don't like the one-on-one scrutiny. But I've had to enter into a very sort of rigorous rehabilitation program to avoid surgery on my back. I've already had four surgeries on my feet and two on my knee - all from Broadway dancing injuries. On Broadway, they don't really rehab the dancers like they do in sports. It's, "The show must go on" .

  Brooke Shields

  Sports, Dancer, Attention

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• Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.

  Alison Brie

  Body, Kind, Great Music

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

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• The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

  Louise Brown

  Girl, Lahore, Dozen

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• I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.

  Margaret Cho

  House, Dancer, Used

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• I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

  Madonna Ciccone

  School, Mean, Kids

  "Interview: Madonna reviews life". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. January 19, 1999.

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• I've said no to 'Celebrity Big Brother,' 'Strictly,' and the American one, 'Dancing With The Stars.' I don't feel it's right for me. I've been asked to do reality TV a zillion times. No way. No way. Nobody's going to get into my living room and see me there.

  Joan Collins

  Brother, Stars, Reality

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• Most ankle strap shoes are seriously unattractive, cutting the line of the leg as well as cutting off the circulation! Try dancing in them - your feet will look like a pair of overdone hotdogs afterwards.

  Joan Collins

  Cutting, Shoes, Feet

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• I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Cousin, Trying, Attention

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels, clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, uk.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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• But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Reality, Denial

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• The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

  Johnny Depp

  Ideas, Scare

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• I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Fun, Golf, Play

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• Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.

  Dick Van Dyke

  First Love, Love Is, Singing

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• Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Beautiful, Art, Thinking

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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