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Dance Quotes

"We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that."

"We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that."

Pete Best, Indian Musician

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"Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you."

"Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you."

E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Critic

Dance, Dancing, Devil, Help

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

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

Dule Hill, American Actor

Dance, Fun, Now, Right

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"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved."

"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved."

Henry Mayhew, English Journalist

Dance, Ballet, Reputation

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

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

Betty Grable, American Actress

Dance, Act, Song

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"Dance must have a precision without fault."

"Dance must have a precision without fault."

Arielle Dombasle, French Actress

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"Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists."

"Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists."

Neve Campbell, Canadian Actress

Dance, Artists, Athletes

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"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."

"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."

Danny Elfman, American Musician

Dance, Successful, Exercise, Film

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"Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?"

"Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?"

Dan Rather, American Journalist

Dance, Democrats

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"I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance."

"I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance."

Lexa Doig, Canadian Actress

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"Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!"

"Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!"

Chris Rock, American Comedian

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

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

Kate Seredy, Hungarian Writer

Dance, Yesterday

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"I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm."

"I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm."

David Gallagher, American Actor

Dance, Dancing, Friends, Girls

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"I knew I was happy when I was dancing."

"I knew I was happy when I was dancing."

Ajay Naidu, American Actor

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

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

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Dance, Company, Waiting

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"One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing."

"One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing."

Sarah Sutton, British Actress

Dance, Dancing, Favorite

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"On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing."

"On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing."

Victoria Abril, Spanish Actress

Dance, Dancing, Film

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"What a joy it is to dance and sing!"

"What a joy it is to dance and sing!"

Angela Carter, English Novelist

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"Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot."

"Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot."

Evander Holyfield, American Athlete

Dance, Courage, Dancing

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

Wayne Dyer, American Psychologist

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

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

Patrick Swayze, American Actor

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

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

Piper Perabo, American Actress

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"I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together."

"I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together."

Irvine Welsh, Scottish Novelist

Dance, Hope, Now, Right

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"Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me."

"Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me."

Taye Diggs, American Actor

Dance, Night, Wishing

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

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

Jessie Matthews, British Actress

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"When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line."

"When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line."

Faith Ford, American Actress

Dance, Popular, School

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

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

Amanda McBroom, American Musician

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"I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting."

"I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting."

William Kempe, English Actor

Dance, Acting, Favorite, Will

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

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

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day."

"I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day."

Michelle Trachtenberg, American Actress

Dance, Ballet, Class, Day

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"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."

"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."

Tori Spelling, American Actress

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"I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example."

"I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example."

Marc Almond, British Musician

Dance, Example, World

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"Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you."

"Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you."

Mike Judge, American Producer

Dance, Fashion, Question

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

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

Dar Williams, American Musician

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"I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me."

"I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me."

Stan Lee, American Writer

Dance, Ideas, Giving, Television

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"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!"

"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!"

Alexander Woollcott, American Critic

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

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

Erica Jong, American Novelist

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

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

Warren G. Bennis, American Psychologist

Dance, Being, Environment

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"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."

"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."

Charles Dance, English Actor

Dance, Impression, Talk, Talking

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"I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance."

"I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance."

Gregory Hines, American Actor

Dance, Dancing, Parents, Talk

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"On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap."

"On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap."

Barbara Cook, American Musician

Dance, Film, Military

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"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."

"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."

Rod Serling, American Writer

Dance, Dancing, Singing, Television

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

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

Lynette Fromme, American Criminal

Dance, Circumstances, Right

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

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

Hayden Fry, American Coach

Dance, Entertainment

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"Dance every performance as if it were your last."

"Dance every performance as if it were your last."

Erik Bruhn, Dutch Dancer

Dance, Performance

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"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."

"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."

Emile Hirsch, American Actor

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

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

Clive Barnes, English Journalist

Dance, Ballet, Dancing

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"Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark."

"Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark."

Simone Schwarz-Bart, French Novelist

Dance, Dancing, Reality, Rest, Singing

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"I dance because it makes me want to explode."

"I dance because it makes me want to explode."

Bill Evans, American Musician

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"The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night."

"The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night."

Seanan McGuire, American Author

Dance, Passion, Romance, Art

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