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"Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives."
"I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head."
"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."
"Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad."
"I used to a lot. I used to go dancing."
"If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you."
"So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well."
"We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing."
"When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see."
"Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair."
"Dancing is such a community feeling."
"I believe dancing is the best stress reliever."
"All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy."
"Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing."
"Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?"
"Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig."
"You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead."
"For you and I are past our dancing days."
"The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind."
