"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
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"Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done."
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"If you don't do your dance, who will?"
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"A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish. After all, I choreographed for myself. I never choreographed what I could not do. I changed steps in Medea and other ballets to accommodate the change. But I knew. And it haunted me. I only wanted to dance."
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"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."
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"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
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"A sense of humor is just common sense dancing."
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"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
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"I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing."
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"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique."
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"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order."
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"I told you to sell it, not give it away."
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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
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"I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it."
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"Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience."
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
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"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
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"Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience."
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"When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that."
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"The only weapon I had was my dancing. With that I fought like a general without an army. If I could have saved all the energy I wasted on my struggle it would have sufficed me to cover a dozen ballets."
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