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I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.

I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

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.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa Where's my wallet But, hey this song is funky.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

I've done everything but tap dance across the table.

It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.

I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

I very much like dance and dancers.

I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party girl'. I hate that. I bust my ass when I'm filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance.

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.

I want people to look like people when they're dancing.

I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

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.

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy and speed; but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime.

I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am, and dance whenever I want to.

I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.