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Michelle Shocked

"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing."

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"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing."

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Amber Hurdle

"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."

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Amber Hurdle

"The real dance is a spontaneous body movement that in harmony with the beats of the music in your heart."

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Amber Hurdle

"Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own."

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Amber Hurdle

"There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us."

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Amber Hurdle

"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."

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Amber Hurdle

"You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents."

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Amber Hurdle

"I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself."

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Amber Hurdle

"The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance."

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Michelle Shocked
"I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake."

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Michelle Shocked
"The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet."

Appreciation

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Michelle Shocked
"Make your own music. It can be done."

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Michelle Shocked
"As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling."

Life

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Michelle Shocked
"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions."

People

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Michelle Shocked
"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing."

Dance

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Michelle Shocked
"I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long."

Heroes

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Michelle Shocked
"I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make."

Change

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Michelle Shocked
"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done."

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Michelle Shocked
"I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed."

Joy

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