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“When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.”

Art Natural Kings Dad Dancing My Dad Clubs Tigers Stylish Ballroom Ballroom Dancing Prowling

Author:Bruno Tonioli

“I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.”

Firsts Social College Dancing Jazz Ballet Dance Floor Tap Dancing

Author:Miles Teller

“I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.”

Firsts Two Class Feet Dancing Injury Surgery Anna

Author:Alicia Vikander

“I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.”

Dancing Jazz Hip Hop Hips Hops Ballet Tap Dancing

Author:Emily VanCamp

“I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?”

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Author:Kenny Wormald

“I've always fought for what I believe in. I used to get made fun of for dancing, and I would argue back, or fight the kids, or do whatever I had to do to shut them up. I have that in me.”

Believe Made Kids Used Fighting Fun I Believe Dancing I Believe In Arguing

Author:Kenny Wormald

“See stars in the changing season and dance among them, shining.”

Stars Seasons Dancing Shining Dance Seasons Change

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!”

Dream Dancing Surface Awake Lakes Autumn Autumn Leaves

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.”

Different Beautiful Dancing Shoes Celebration Psychedelic Outfits

Book:Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad

Source: Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad

“I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.”

Kind School Stuff Sports Middle Involved Drama My Friends Dancing Theatre Things To Do Middle School Cool Things Playing Sports

Author:Kara Lindsay

“When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.”

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Author:AnnaLynne McCord

“When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.”

Mother Acting Class Singing Dancing Singing And Dancing

Author:Beau Mirchoff

“I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.”

Author:Grant Morrison

“I came out the womb dancing.”

Author:Michael K. Williams

“When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see.”

Author:Pharrell Williams

“I've been dancing forever; since I remember, that's what I've been doing.”

Remember Forever Dancing

Author:Tyler James Williams

“I got my red dress on tonight Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight Done my hair up real big beauty queen style High heels off, I'm feeling alive”

Real Done Feelings Bigs Dark Alive Style Hair Red Dresses Dancing Queens Tonight Heels Pale Moonlight High Heels Beauty Queen Hair Up

Author:Lana Del Rey

“Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.”

Helping Devil Dancing Prettiest Capers Dancing With The Devil

Author:E. T. A. Hoffmann

“My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.”

Wanted Energy Struggle Dancing Caught Caught Up

Book:Assata: An Autobiography

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.”

People Ifs Giving Hands Kids Moving Success Steps Feet Determination Lays Dancing Perseverance Over You Keep Going Keep Moving Forward

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.”

Thinking Beautiful Universe Space Pure Shapes Dancing Geometry Space Time

Author:Antony Garrett Lisi

“Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.”

Passion Dancing Latin My Passion

Author:Jake Pavelka

“I don't know that I came across as being real competitive on 'The Bachelor,' although maybe I did a little bit on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I am a born competitor. The bigger the challenge the better!”

Knows Littles Real Stars Bits Born Challenges Little Bit Bigger Dancing Being Real Competitors Bachelors Dancing With The Stars

Author:Jake Pavelka

“I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn’t really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.”

Art Two Wanted Acting Childhood Mom Normal Dancing My Mom Pursue Performing Performing Arts

Author:Rainey Qualley

“We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.”

Thinking Moving Night Next Huge Expectations Pressure Dancing Studios Spending Korea Choreographers Dance Moves

Author:PSY

“I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.”

I Can Young Girl Attention One Thing Serious Dancing Come Up

Author:PSY

“A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.”

Revolution Dancing

Author:Emma Goldman

“Dancing - however you do it, even if it's in your living room - is a great workout.”

Ifs Rooms Dancing Workout Great Work Living Room Great Workout

Author:Ciara

“I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.”

People Thinking Years Has Beens Book Dancing

Author:Martin Parr

“The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.”

Song Singing Dancing Incredibles Buzz

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“Dancing with The Stars' is like learning a new sport with lots of bumps and bruises.”

Stars Sports Dancing Bumps Bruises Dancing With The Stars

Author:Lil Romeo

“I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Film Missing Tvs Singing Ideals Dancing Musical Casts Singing And Dancing

Author:Laura Osnes

“My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.”

Made Father Levels Magic Painting Training Dancing Theatre Ballroom Ballroom Dancing Commandos

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.”

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Author:William Prynne

“The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering rousters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to hell. The gate of heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troops of dancers to march in together.”

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Author:William Prynne

“My slender waist and thighs are exhausted and weak from a night of cloud dancing.”

Night Weak Dancing Clouds Sensual Exhausted Erotic Thighs Slender

Author:Huang E

“Just start dancing and the band will find you.”

Band Dancing Ecstasy

Book:This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

Source: This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

“Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever.”

Matter Together Spirit Universe Forever Movement Goes On Dancing Partners Rhythm Reincarnation Together As One

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I've had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He's from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.”

Dancing Theatre Partners Backgrounds Broadway And Off

Author:John Travolta

“We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.”

Thinking Book Path Air Sea Walking Mountain Dancing Thoughtful Customs Climbing Preference Lonesome

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you can walk, you can run.”

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Author:Publilius Syrus

“I believe in dancing.”

Believe I Believe Dancing I Believe In

Author:Robert Fulghum

“He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.”

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.”

Art Teach Kings Dancing France Senate Imports Fiddle

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq

“I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.”

Source: Blood Memory

“O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!”

Want Giving Years I Can Land Figures Taught Masters Goes On Ten Seasons Give Me Dancing Dear Caught Dull Something New Bores Advancing Uniformity Tripping

Author:Thomas Haynes Bayly

“Work like you don't need the money.”

“It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.”

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Author:David Hume

“Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.”

Asks Singing Dancing Ask Me

Author:Billie Jean King

“I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.”

Want I Can Stars Stage Dancing Dance Dancing With The Stars Bops

Author:Angela Lansbury