Quotes about dance
dance difficult justify
It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. Twyla Tharp
dance stupid people
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid. Twyla Tharp
dance way machines
We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed. Twyla Tharp
dance believe thinking
You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it. Twyla Tharp
dance kids thinking
Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come. Twyla Tharp
dance dancing splits
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing. Twyla Tharp
dance knows know-how
I do everything I know how in a dance. Twyla Tharp
dance moving thinking
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving. Twyla Tharp
dance dream becoming-the-best
I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer. Twyla Tharp
dance wall thinking
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. Twyla Tharp
dance running art
dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination. Twyla Tharp
dance done today
Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today? William Arthur Ward
dance men fire
To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road. Thomas Hardy
dance answers kind
Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray. Thomas Campion
dancer acting singers
I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it. Victoria Beckham
dance lost-love light
In your light I learn how to love. Rumi
dance heart wind
Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds. Rumi
dance flower hair
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... Susan Polis Schutz
dancer tables globalization
In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force. Subcomandante Marcos
dancer singers actresses
We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer! Paz Vega
dance past records
If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance. Puff Daddy
dance bars get-up
It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance. Piper Perabo
dance secret-places soul
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul Plato
dance men goal
Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great. Ralph Waldo Emerson
dancer actresses my-time
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer. Leslie Caron
dance mirrors giving
If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror. Vanna Bonta
dancer
I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read. Suzanne Farrell
dancer unemotional
I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not. Suzanne Farrell
dance mean important
Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance. Suzanne Farrell
dance serious normal
I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance. Suzanne Farrell
dance thinking important
I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina. Suzanne Farrell
dance wall dancing
Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession. Suzanne Farrell
dance insecure ballet
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited. Suzanne Farrell