"In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength."
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"I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit."
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"I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing."
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"On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet"
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"Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent."
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"It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance."
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"Nothing is more revealing than movement."
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"...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing."
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"To chase the glowing hours with flying feet."
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"When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance."
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"A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession."
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"Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance."
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"Dance when you're perfectly free."
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"No sane man will dance."
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"Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!"
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"I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo."
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"So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?"
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"We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance."
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"Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing."
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"Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other."
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