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On Sundays, Presbyterians were not allowed to eat hot food or read the funny papers or travel the sh...

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Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done ...

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it g...

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one...

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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumpi...

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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he ...

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Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

I’ve said before, Harry, no need to hide your light,” said Alice, squeezing his hand. She giggled, “...

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Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the...

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And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand ...

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I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, ...

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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish...

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Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always ...

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It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and ...

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Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilizat...

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Who're you going with, then?" said Ron."Angelina," said Fred promptly, without a trace of embarrassm...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Each day before the end of eveshe sought her lover, nor would him leave,until the stars were dimmed,...

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A light like the glint of water on dewy grass flashed from under her feet as she danced.

Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you ...

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Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a da...

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The sun dances in her and she has an immense joy of life

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of ...

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Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess ...

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Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep but it's not so badI don't worry and I don't weep. In fact I...

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Jim HensonIt's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio ...

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Judith JamisonDancing Spirit: An Autobiography

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, tha...

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Judith JamisonDancing Spirit: An Autobiography

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights complete...

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Judith JamisonDancing Spirit: An Autobiography

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in ...

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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Lov...

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Show me slowly what I onlyknow the limits ofDance me to the end of love

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Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone mus...

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Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in ...

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Robot. Is. Sad. Because silly bitch. Will. Not. Dance.

Never stop moving, or you'll stop moving. I go to dance class every morning, and it's just good to s...

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In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.I Name you Calvin.I Name you Mr. Jenkins.I Name you Proginoskes....

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It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my min...

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Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been h...

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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth li...

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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live b...

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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of thei...

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There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never ...

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I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...

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To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...

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I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the b...

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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...

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You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of th...

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Martha GrahamBlood Memory

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that ev...

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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and ...

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Martha GrahamBlood Memory

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone be...

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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's c...

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Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. ...

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The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think ...

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Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished,...

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Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful s...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political b...

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Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED ...

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Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken......

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My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to ...

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There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be in...

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The Give and Take Athletic Association lived up to its name. The hall of the association in Orchard ...

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O. HenryThe Complete Works of O. Henry

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedi...

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I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance.

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the w...

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I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and t...

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Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and...

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The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in...

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If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh a...

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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance numbe...

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Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been th...

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Shel SilversteinA Light in the Attic

For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service o...

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When Geoffrey was away, the goat often took himself off. He had soon got the goats at Granny’s cotta...

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Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way ...

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When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it alwa...

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I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill ...

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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrewsNot to be born is the best for manThe second be...

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I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

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W. H. AudenCollected Poems

It was a sordid scene. Philip leaned over the rail, staring down, and he ceased to hear the music. T...

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Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, ...

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, ...

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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legis...

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.