"But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe."
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"Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds."
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"The self is a dance, constantly in motion."
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"Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation."
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"A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped."
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"Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing."
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"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind."
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"Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart."
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"The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once."
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"It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance."
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"The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body."
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"It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely."
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"When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you."
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"Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too."
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"When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine."
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"The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave."
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"Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God."
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"In your light I learn how to love."
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"Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together."
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"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!"
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