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I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and d...

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It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a s...

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A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man...

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Ayn RandThe Romantic Manifesto

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

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Ayn RandThe Romantic Manifesto

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what ...

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There are different forms of seduction, and the kind I have witnessed in Persian dancers is so uniqu...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you in...

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Then Bacchus and Silenus and the Maenads began a dance, far wilder than the dance of the trees; not ...

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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all ove...

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him...

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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit ...

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I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.

I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even w...

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No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazin...

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He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right t...

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I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and th...

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Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Ja...

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If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!

I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips th...

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Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dan...

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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you s...

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Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a l...

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When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song...

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was ...

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I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

They dined on mince, and slices of quinceWhich they ate with a runcible spoon;And hand in hand, on t...

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Edward LearThe Owl and the Pussycat

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and fre...

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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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