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Dance Quotes



"Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness."


"They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something."


"So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses."


"I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with."


"If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay."


"There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company."


"It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance."



"For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know."



"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."


"When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance."


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


"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance."


"How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light."



"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."



"Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance."


"Dance, as if nobody is watching. Love, as if you have never been hurt before."


"It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!"


"We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar."


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



"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."


"One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing."


"When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable."
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