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“When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.”

Firsts My Own Style Dancing Hops Swings

Author:Katy Perry

“Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.”

Inspirational Moving Dancing Dance Short Dance

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.”

Real Shows Dream Class Week Six Dancing Broadway Broadway Shows

Author:Natalie Portman

“All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?”

Should Wish Pay Attention Fool Clothes Singing Dancing Albums Should I

Author:Prince

“The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.”

Dancing Scared Aptitude

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.”

Children Attitude Masters Dancing Dance Gestures Reign Introduction Unnatural Distortion Just Dance

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting

“On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.”

Years Seems Saws Minutes New York Ten Singing Shots Years Ago Dancing Lifetime Screens Broadway Emma Singing And Dancing Flashback

Author:Alan Rickman

“Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.”

Men Inspirational Joy Talking Trouble Conversation Dancing Dance Music And Dance Funny Dance

Book:Gineger My Story

Source: Gineger My Story

“My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.”

Feels Motivational Mother Born Months Dancing Dance Toes Tapping Ginger

Book:Gineger My Story

Source: Gineger My Story

“Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.”

Happens Motivational Born Effort Steps Dancing Dance Average Accomplish Partners Rhythm Fancy Dancer Desirable Intricate Vogue

Author:Ginger Rogers

“I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.”

Men Years Wanted Film Girl Found Term Ten Singing Dancing Faults Range Singing And Dancing

Book:Gineger My Story

Source: Gineger My Story

“The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.”

Trying Wells Might Acting Fields Singing Female Logic Dancing Comedian Fewer Competitors Singing And Dancing Female Comedian

Author:Rita Rudner

“Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.”

“You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.”

Should Ends Song Laughter Wine Dancing Affair Celebrate New Orleans Love Affair

Author:Francoise Sagan

“Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.”

Thinking Way Feels Looks Body Able Dancing Screens Backgrounds Tunes Length Ballet

Author:Zoe Saldana

“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.”

Humor Funny Difficult Minutes Produce Television Paper Singing Dancing Dance Marketing Selling Advertising Twelve Documentaries Toilets Rabbits Interrupted Toilet Paper Twilight Zone Probing

Author:Rod Serling

“No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.”

Firsts War Film Names England Sells Dancing Singers Lovely Agents Dancer Jane Chorus Joyce Maggie Odes

Author:Jane Seymour

“Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.”

Way Shows Stars Comedy Drama Elements Dancing Variety Suspense Classic Idols Ingenious American Idol Dancing With The Stars

Author:Tom Shales

“If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.”

Ifs Inspirational Teach Humorous Dancing Dance Witty Dancer Closets Express Yourself Funny Life Skeletons Just Dance Inspirational Dance Short Dance Modern Dance Motivational Dance Funny Dance

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

“I didn't see my son the entire time I did 'Dancing With the Stars.' The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day - 40 to 50 hours a week.”

Inspirational Shows Night Stars Hours Watches Saws Week Son Six Dancing Dance Eight My Son Monday Only Time Tuesday Watch Me Dancing With The Stars Tuesday Night

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“I've taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire 'Dora the Explorer' soundtrack.”

Knows Class Taken Son Dancing My Son Tape Explorers Microphones Soundtracks Salsa Karaoke

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.”

Children Kids Childhood Dancing Dance Dancer Just Dance Dance Music Inspirational Dance Kids Growing Up Music And Dance Short Dance Children Growing Up Classical Dance

Book:The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

Source: The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

“That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.”

Way Want War Literature Walking Dancing Back When

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.”

Sound Band Models Dancing Emphasis Distinctive Cuban Copying

Author:Ruben Blades

“Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.”

Stories Age School Romance Drama Elements High School Dresses Dancing Tension Coming Of Age Prom Limos

Author:Adora Svitak

“I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.”

Thinking World I Can Done Dancing Dance Honestly Choreography Choreographers

Author:Twyla Tharp

“I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.”

Mean Wanted Form Audience Havens Dancing Excellent Intimidating Brilliant Ideas Elitist

Author:Twyla Tharp

“The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.”

Different Dancing Rewards

Author:Twyla Tharp

“I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.”

Littles Painting Lessons Training Dancing Piano Description Formal Shorthand Viola

Author:Twyla Tharp

“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.”

Thinking Use Moving Term Challenges Modern Relation Dancing Dance Modern Dance

Author:Twyla Tharp

“We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.”

Party Pieces Sea Dancing Plant Passing Passings Strings Genes Bees Organisms Dna Insects Viruses Back Again Mammals Heredity Genome Tugging Great Party

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.”

People Soul Enjoy Dancing My Soul Make Me Happy Making People Happy

Author:John Travolta

“I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.”

Winning Sports Dancing Tees

Author:Lee Trevino

“My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.”

Years Kind Has Beens Lasts Friendship Feet Stage Fool Dancing My Best Friend

Author:Steven Tyler

“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.”

People Love Streets Weapons Singing Dancing Drinking Arguing Making Love Inventing Slaughterhouses

Book:Situationism: A Compendium

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

“By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.”

School Names Walks Grew Grew Up Dancing Queens Saturday Modeling Bowling Catalogues

Author:Christopher Walken

“All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.”

Thinking Years Looks I Can Body Moving Design Dancing Skating Women's Bodies

Author:Vera Wang

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.”

Way Dancing Folks Hungry Evening Spite Good Times Good Way

Book:Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk

Source: Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk

“Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.”

Wells Doe Art Done Football Dancing Well Done

Author:Arsene Wenger

“But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.”

Feels Humans Has Beens Important Able Culture Roles Stage Activity Dancing Musical Ritual Could Have Been

Author:E. O. Wilson

“People think I appear on television to promote my image. That's not fair. I hate filming. I turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing.' But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. 'Super Doctors' is a very thoughtful piece.”

People Thinking Ideas Hate Opportunity Pieces Wonderful Television Fairs Doctors I Hate Dancing Thoughtful Not Fair Turned Down Very Thoughtful

Author:Robert Winston

“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!”

World Wind Mountain Angel Dancing Dance Flames Fairy Dull Take Me Paganism Pagan Faerie Just Dance Sidhe

Book:When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

“How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

“I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.”

Beautiful Wish Born Work Dancing Studios Eras Pants Genes Going To Work Sunglasses Scarves

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.”

Heart Nature Environment Fire Tree Color Garden Dancing Warm Tongue Forests Flames Autumn Magnitude Plant A Tree Forests And Trees Woodland Forest Fires Woods And Forests

Author:Hal Borland

“To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.”

Morning Week Yoga Dancing Regimes Every Morning Strict Stretching Pilates

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty