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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."

"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."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

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

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."

"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved."
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"I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land."

"When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business."

"My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing."

"The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that."

"We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant."

"Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did."

"This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment."

"You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words."
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