"On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that."
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"If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing."
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"No sober person dances."
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"Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them."
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"At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment."
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"Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack."
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"At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me."
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"Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet."
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"On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined."
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"Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people."
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"I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors."
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"When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones."
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"I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act."
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"Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with."
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"To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers."
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"If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!"
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"It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by."
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"In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other."
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