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“I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.”

“I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love.”

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Author:Taryn Manning

“I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer.”

Together Prayer Smoke Dancer Cracks

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".”

People Knows Next Cry Poet Baby Beer Performing Dancer Feathers Festivals Lifting Cinco De Mayo

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have to learn.”

People Next Attention Poet Dancer Feathers Wise People

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look at yourself in the mirror and you criticise every line in your body. It's never perfect. I grew up with this because I had ballet every day in school.”

“The only time I feel pressured is when some woman's husband comes over and says, "Will you go ask my wife to dance? She's a great dancer and would just love to dance with you."Suddenly there's a crowd of people standing around us and they expect that they're about to see Fred and Ginger. Here the woman and I have just met, and these people think that it's showtime. That is the only time I think it is really embarrassing.”

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Author:Gene Kelly

“It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down upon, and it was true that a lot of the male dancers were effeminate. But what I was really trying to do was develop something that would be American.”

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Author:Gene Kelly

“In film, a dancer should always be shot from head to toe, because that way you can see the whole body and that is the art of dancing. Nowadays they shoot the nose. Left nostril. Right nostril. Hand. Foot. Bust. Derrière. The film prevents you from determining who is a good dancer and who is not.”

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Author:Gene Kelly

“When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good dancer.”

Thinking Knows Persons Screens Dancer Toes

Author:Gene Kelly

“America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see.”

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Author:Gene Kelly

“I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov do Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite on PBS. I have no numbers to prove it, but I bet that kids who saw that loved it. I think you will see younger dancers, who certainly have the artistic sense and capabilities, start going back to romantic numbers.”

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Author:Gene Kelly

“I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.”

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Author:Maura Tierney

“I've always created solo work. When I first came to New York I was working in a few different areas; I was working as a drummer, a vocalist, an actor, and a dancer. I had gotten picked up more on the music side and that sort of went, and that's where I found my community in New York and that's the path that I went down.”

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Author:Guillermo E. Brown

“When I was a little kid back in Moscow, Russia, I've always thought I would become an artist or a folk dancer or an astronomer. In fact, if you'd asked me then about a life of solitary writing I would have said, "Oh how boring! Imagine, to sit at a desk all day and just write."”

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Author:Vera Nazarian

“It's like, say you're a dancer and you've been studying modern dance your whole life so you're used to a certain aesthetic of music or motivation or influence, if I send you something that you're totally not used to or don't understand, rarely does that work. On the average, you're not gonna feel that and it won't be you. You have to be in there.”

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Author:Jlin

“I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.”

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Author:Lucinda Childs

“The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement is automatically visible.”

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Author:Lucinda Childs

“The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.”

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Author:Lucinda Childs

“Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.”

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Author:Frank Gehry

“I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.”

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Author:Jillian Hervey

“I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.”

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Author:Jillian Hervey

“The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers.”

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Author:Jillian Hervey

“I'm in a very good place now because I do theater, I do TV and I make movies. I was a dancer, so I dance a little bit. I was a musician, so I do a little bit of music. And I do all of this in four or five different languages, and all over the world.”

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Author:Richard Sammel

“In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the hallway, theater students, musical students, art geeks. And it was a kindergarten in the truest sense of the world: a children's garden where I was able to sort of really come into myself as an artist, as a person, sexuality issues - like, all of this became something where there was a firming-up and a knowing that went on.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I will never be the best dancer or artist. I will be growing until the day I retire.”

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Author:Misty Copeland

“I will push myself in different ventures that I believe will make me a better artist, dancer and person.”

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Author:Misty Copeland

“I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.”

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Author:Justin Adams

“Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.”

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Author:Sergei Polunin

“As soon as I said to myself, "Oh I'm not a dancer; I'm not an actor," it made me so free to do anything. It made me free to not rush, to not be scared of things and say, "Oh, I have no time," or, "I'm not going to make this or that."”

Made Said Actors Scared Dancer

Author:Sergei Polunin

“Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.”

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Author:Theodora Goss

“As I currently explore things like augmented and virtual reality, I constantly bring us back to actual bodies in space, real dancers that have physical manifestations not just phantoms that exist in digital space.”

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Author:Saya Woolfalk

“Mads [Mikkelsen] and I have a really epic brawl - a week shoot, lots of rehearsal - and he was just delightful. He's a dancer and a gymnast so he knows how to plant the moves. He was always saying, "Are you okay?" When you've got that level of mutual consideration you form a family very quickly.”

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Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.”

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Author:Chath Piersath

“If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but in the end we need someone to assess us and give us personal instruction. The two go together.”

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Author:Tenzin Palmo

“When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.”

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Author:FKA twigs

“My biggest dream is to be able to be in a movie or some great TV show where I get to dance, and it's about a contemporary dancer of some kind.”

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Author:Haley Lu Richardson

“Dance is so prominent, now more than it's been before, but I still feel like there's this void that needs to be filled that tells the story of a contemporary dancer who is in a company - I don't know, just that's my dream to do that.”

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Author:Haley Lu Richardson

“My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll? No. I wanted a guitar, but my mother didn't really want me to have one. At some point I played a violin, but I didn't last long at that.”

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Author:Mark Alan Stamaty

“If you're a dancer, study singing.”

Ifs Study Singing Dancer

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.”

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Author:Debbie Reynolds

“Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.”

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Author:Debbie Reynolds

“[Film Loulou] is about Loulou, a ghost from the 1920s. She was a flapper and she was a dancer, had kind of a free lifestyle, then she ended up marrying a man who wanted to kind of keep her in the house and control her environment a little bit more and so she committed suicide.”

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Author:Boti Bliss

“There are some wonderful parts in the movie [Loulou] where Loulou used to be a dancer and a cabaret. To see her kind of be able to interact with another human being so isolated for so long, it's just neat to see that being played out and how fun and explore that.”

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Author:Boti Bliss

“I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the same time, like Maureen Murdock. They are photographers and dancers and other kinds of things and therapists at the same time. I think it really makes them a much more interesting therapist because they're so engaged with the imagination and the creativity and the depths of who they are.”

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Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall

“I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to be an actor, to be a singer, to be a dancer - that I understand. Wanting to be famous - I don't get that. But that's where we're living right now.”

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Author:Lorna Luft

“I try to think of myself as a struggling competitor or specialist at my craft, much like a singer, dancer, comedian, or actor. So I'm struggling to do my craft and I'm continually trying to learn to do it better. I think that's what's really been my secret.”

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Author:Kai Greene

“I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.”

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Author:Kesha

“I never claimed to be the best singer, I never claimed to be the best dancer, but I do claim to be the person that can put them together best.”

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Author:Ginuwine

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