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“Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!”

“There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.”

“Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.”

“Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.”

“Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.”

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Author:Jacques d'Amboise

“Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.”

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Author:Ross Perot

“Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.”

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Author:James Cagney

“Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties. You know, in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around. Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that.”

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Author:Paula Deen

“I still get very excited when people say they fall in love. It doesn’t matter how old you are, falling in love is a beautiful thing. And I still act like I did when I was a teenager. I get fluttery and tap dance around. I’m never afraid of making funny faces or being completely goofy.”

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Author:Cote de Pablo

“Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance.”

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Author:Donald O'Connor

“In the beginning, I found myself dealing with a show business dictated by male white supremacists and chauvinists. As a black female, I had to learn how to tap dance around the situation. I had to ... find a way to present my point of view without being pushy or aggressive. In the old days, the only women I saw in this business were in makeup, hairdressing, and wardrobe departments. Now I'm surrounded by women executives, writers, directors, producers, and even women stagehands.”

“Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.”

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Author:Agnes de Mille

“I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.”

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Author:Huey Lewis

“In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.”

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Author:Rebecca Lobo

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

“Nobody cares if you can't dance well.”

“On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.”

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Author:Barbara Cook