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"If you can walk, you
can dance. If you can talk, you can sing."
- Zimbabwean proverb
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"Good dancers are made, not born."
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"Dance like no one is
watching. Sing like no one is listening.
Love like you've never been hurt and live
like it's heaven on Earth."
- Mark Twain
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"To sing well and to
dance is to be well educated."
- Plato
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"Remember, Ginger Rogers
did everything Fred Astaire did, but
backwards and in high heels."
- Faith Whittlesey
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"All dancing girls are
nineteen years old."
- Japanese proverb
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"A man who dances has
his choice of romances"
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"There is nothing more
notable in Socrates than that he found time,
when he was an old man, to learn music and
dancing, and thought it time well spent."
- Michel de Montaigne
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"Freedom to a dancer means
discipline. That is what technique is
for--liberation."
- Martha Graham
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"We should consider every
day lost on which we have not danced at
least once."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Anyone who thinks
sunshine is happiness has never danced in
the rain."
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"Life may not be the
party we hoped for, but while we're here
we should dance."
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"To dance is to be out
of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more
powerful. This is power, it is glory on
earth and it is yours for the taking."
- Agnes De Mille
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"Dance for yourself,
if someone understands good. If not then
no matter, go right on doing what you
love."
- Lois Hurst
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"Dance, even if you have
nowhere to do it but your living room."
- Mary Schmich
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"You don't stop dancing
from growing old, you grow old from
stopping to dance."
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"The truest expression
of a people is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie."
- Agnes De Mille
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"Let us read and let
us dance - two amusements that will never
do any harm to the world."
- Voltaire
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"We're fools whether
we dance or not, so we might as well
dance."
- Japanese proverb
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"Dancing is wonderful
training for girls, it's the first way
you learn to guess what a man is going
to do before he does it."
- Christopher Morley
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"I do not know what
the spirit of a philosopher could more
wish to be than a good dancer. For the
dance is his ideal."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I do not try to
dance better than anyone else. I only
try to dance better than myself."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
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"The good Lord gave
you a body that can stand most anything.
It's your mind you have to convince."
- Vincent Lombardi
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"You haven't got
anything to dance about until you're over
thirty-five anyway."
- Bert Balladine
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"I intend to work for
this dance of the future. I do not know
whether I have the necessary qualities; I
may have neither genius nor talent nor
temperament. But I know that I have a
Will; and will and energy sometimes prove
greater than either genius or talent or
temperament."
- Isadora Duncan
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"Do the steps that
you've been shown, by everyone you've
ever known, until the dance becomes your
very own."
- Jackson Brown
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- "Beginning dancer:
knows nothing.
- Intermediate dancer: knows everything;
too good to dance with beginners.
- Hotshot dancer: too good to dance with
anyone.
- Advanced dancer: Dances everything.
Especially with beginners."
- Richard Crum
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"Dance just gets more
exciting the more you know about it,
which is why you have to do it well at
school so you can spend the rest of your
life supporting your habit. Just don't
plan to marry anyone who dislikes
dancing; it'll probably win in the end!"
- Kay Teague
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"Dance: the vertical
expression of a horizontal desire."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"Every day brings a
chance for you to draw in a breath, kick
off your shoes, and dance."
- Oprah Winfrey
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"Dance is the hidden
language of the soul of the body."
- Martha Graham
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"Basic dance--and I
should qualify the word basic--is primarily
concerned with motion. So immediately you
will say but the basketball player is
concerned with motion. That is so--but he
is not concerned with it primarily. His
action is a means towards an end beyond
motion. In basic dance the motion is its
own end--that is, it is concerned with
nothing beyond itself."
- Alwin Nikolais
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"All dance has
expression. If there is no expression, I
prefer the circus. The performers do more
dangerous, more difficult technical things
than we do. But we are dancers. We have to
express and we have to project."
- Luis Fuente
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"Dancing should look
easy; like an optical illusion. It should
seem effortless. When you do a difficult
variation, the audience is aware that it
is demanding and that you have the power
and strength to do it. But in the end,
when you take your bow, you should look
as if you were saying, 'Oh, it was
nothing. I could do it again.'"
- Bruce Marks
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"Dance is bigger than
the physical body. Think bigger than that.
When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop
at the end of your fingers, because you're
dancing bigger than that: your dancing
spirit."
- Judith Jamison
