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- Nov 07, 2020
Dance Quotes
On movement, passion, and dancing like it matters.
This collection treats dance as something closer to survival than hobby, one dancer describing it as a need felt in the body, another urging full presence in the moment rather than dwelling on past or future. See Dancer quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rukmini Devi was an icon for all the Bharat Natyam students at Kalakshetra. I grew up watching her at dance school and I associate her style with grace and humility - it's never the clothes, it's the persona.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been acting from a very young age and also performing with a dance troupe, the Kalakshetra Dance Troupe, from city to city. I needed a break. After marriage I took time off. That break lasted 24 years!
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to take a decision. Do I pursue dance, my passion, or help my mother out? The movies beckoned.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
- Celebrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
From his roots as a slave, the American Negro - sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful - has touched, illuminated, and influenced the most remote preserves of world civilisation. I and my dance theater celebrate this trembling beauty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.
- Nov 07, 2020
I honestly find it easier to dance about in heels than I do to walk down the street in them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance diva; another thought I should do Rock n' Roll; and one thought I shouldn't even be singing at all!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.
- Git
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- Nov 07, 2020
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I like a new song, I play it on loop and dance to it. That's my therapy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020