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Author:Elliott Gould

“I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.”

Wanted Three Contemporary Dancer Ballet Ballet Dancer Juilliard

Author:Solange Knowles

“I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.”

Kids Wanted Fantasy Drama Sticks Dancer Autobiography Billy Elliot

Author:Lee Hall

“When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.”

Men Poet Musician Fundamentals Medicine Determine Missions Dancer Priests Swings Existential Fulfilling Requirements

Book:The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

Source: The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

“I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.”

Firsts Wanted Felt Company Audience Fronts I Realized Performing Dancer Canada Overwhelmed Gigs Synergy

Author:Catherine Mary Stewart

“I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.”

Years Littles Body Perfect Levels Feet Crazy Dancing Boring Dancer Ballet Gymnastics Arches Ballet Dancer

Author:Catherine Mary Stewart

“I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.”

People Kids School Black Comedy Fashion High School Dancer Asian Hispanic

Author:Brett Ratner

“I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.”

World Trying Whole Song Fall My Own Dancer

Author:Geri Halliwell

“Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it's like listening to a dancer.”

Listening Dancer Liquid Dean Lyrical Effortless

Author:Steve Tibbetts

“As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.”

“Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.”

Hard Work Harder Actresses Dancer Magnificent Work Harder Diana

Author:Robert Gottlieb

“My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.”

Trying Son Dancer My Son Endeavour

Author:Mithun Chakraborty

“Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.”

Actors Born Dancer Good Actors

Author:Mithun Chakraborty

“For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.”

Artist Entertainment Dancer Vocabulary Backup

Author:Laurieann Gibson

“When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.”

Years Firsts Hands Wanted Existence New York Mouths Moved Dancer

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.”

Stills Walks Dancing Flying Bliss Dancer Flyers

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.”

Knows Firsts Know How Doubt Angel Dancing Flying No Doubt Dancer

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!”

White Dancing Shoes Jew Dancer Thick Denmark

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.”

Writing Actors Mark Competition Crowds Singers Dancer Performers Unusual Unlikely Great Writers

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?”

Men Asks Found House Lovers Wide Oppression Dancer Tall Crew Beaten Clay Horsemen Cromwell Swordsman

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.”

Men May Stills Drink Dancing Drinking Dancer Punk Sober

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.”

Kind Pure Conscious Dance Dancer Incapable Formal Trance Formality

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.”

May Children Ends Artist Grows Parent Example Train Plant Average Dancer Chickens Stakes Ballet Wire Right Direction Accountants Massachusetts Ballet Dancer Certified Public Accountant

Book:Close to Home

Source: Close to Home

“Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.”

Knows Poor Tree Green Dancer Spine Peas

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“Two children, all alone and no one by, Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet Dance sedately; face to face they gaze, Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.”

Children Two Eye Faces Perfect Pleasure Feet Dancing Shining Graves Dancer Face To Face All Alone Mazes Airy Nimble

Book:Laurence Binyon

Source: Laurence Binyon

“You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.”

Years Moving Dancing Dancer Retiring Broadway Injured Time To Move On

Author:Wendy Whelan

“Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry.”

Taught Dancing Dancer Arthur

Author:Johnny Mercer

“The quivering of Psyche's butterflies.”

Dancing Dancer Butterfly

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air.”

Mistake Air Dancing Rhythm Abstract Dancer

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.”

Tree Wind Dancing Dancer Bows Arrows Starks

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Shall we go dance the hay, the hay? Never pipe could ever play Better shepherd's roundelay.”

Play Dancing Dancer Pipe Shepherds Hay

Book:Phillida and Coridon: and other pastorals

Source: Phillida and Coridon: and other pastorals

“If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.”

Ifs Hips Dancer Gymnast

Author:Mia Hamm

“It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.”

Men Reality Easy Fellows Dancing Myth Dancer

Author:Earle Birney

“You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.”

Ifs Looks Enough Age Certain Smart Theater Dancer Choreographers Tango Flamenco

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Coming from being a dancer, it was a great way for me to transition into being an actress. I get to really be expressive through my physical self, and that was just a comfortable way for me to start experimenting with how to get my character across.”

Way Self Character Comfortable Actresses Dancer Transition Expressive

Author:Summer Glau

“I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.”

Moments Plans Dancer Ballet Ballet Dancer

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!”

Wells Heart Forget Brother Higher Dance Legs Lifts My Brother Dancer Celebration Jubilation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.”

Actors Growth Lines White Acting Dying Mouths Wings Dancer Forgiven

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.”

Long Mad Dance Dancer Length Madmen

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“Yes, I would (be a big hit on Dancing with the Stars), but I don't think I can be wearing those tight outfits they have on there. I'm a very good dancer. I'm the John Travolta of Venezuela. If I was one of the 'Jersey Shore' guys and I had their stomach, then hell yeah I would do it.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Bigs Would Be Guy Stars Hell Yeah Dancing Very Good Dancer Shore Stomach Jersey Outfits Venezuela Dancing With The Stars Jersey Shore Hell Yeah

Author:Ozzie Guillen

“Pamela Anderson is a great dancer considering she can't see her feet.”

Feet Dancing Dancer Considering

Author:David Letterman

“anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did.”

Summer Spring Singing Towns Dancing Winter Dancer Autumn Bells Floating Spring Summer

Author:e. e. cummings

“My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.”

Knows Know How Wife My Wife Dancer

Author:David Hasselhoff

“Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.”

Kind Reason Order Wish Rooms Wall Judgment Balls Dancing All Kinds Satan Visible Dancer Righteousness Disorder Provoking Mischief Wildness Levity

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself.”

Writing Eye Fire Feet Musician Ears Tongue Painter Dancer Pens Torches Quills

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.”

Men Humans Virtue Honest Dangerous Human Nature Weak Dancer Rope Equilibrium Honest Man

Author:Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

“Listen, sister. I don't dance and I can't take time out now to learn.”

I Can War Dancing Dance Dancer Take Time Sister

Author:Frank Wead

“It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.”

Feet Beats Treats Dancing Dancer Mud Mississippi Mississippi River

Author:James Kavanaugh

“I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.”

Trying Mean Dancer

Author:Martha Graham

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