"Nobody cares if you can't dance well."
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"Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie."
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"All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing."
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"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance."
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"All the world's a stage."
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"The Gods have meant That I should dance And by the Gods I will!"
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"Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand."
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"Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance."
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"Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."
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"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."
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"The body is a sacred garment."
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"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
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"Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it."
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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
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"Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!"
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"When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!"
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"Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough."
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"She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears; she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind."
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"Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle."
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"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."
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