"Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated."
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"I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest."
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"Dancers are the athletes of God."
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"And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance."
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"It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art."
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"Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing."
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"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
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"Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different."
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"The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle."
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"To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that."
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"A Nation's character is typified by its dancers."
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"Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea."
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"The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection."
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"When I give, I give myself."
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"I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers."
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"What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children."
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"Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave."
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"It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to."
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"I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing."
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"The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now."
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