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"The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master."
"Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward."
"The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own"
"First we have to believe, and then we believe."
"There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep."
"To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!."
"So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well."
"During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too."
"For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises."
"When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point."
"I dance with the dancers."
"When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea."
"She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell."
"Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig."
"At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is."
"All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses."
"My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen."
"I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive."
"You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you."
"In your beauty, how to make poems."
