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I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

I dance with the dancers.

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

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.

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

I didn't see my son the entire time I did 'Dancing With the Stars.' The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day - 40 to 50 hours a week.

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

I do everything I know how in a dance.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

I feel amazing right now. I just feel like dancing.

If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.

If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!

If I can not dance, I shall die!

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm and You are the music.

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!

If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

If I couldn't be a good example, I'd just have to be a horrible warning.

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.

If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.

If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.

If you can walk, you can run.

... if you desire to marry you must realize that a mistress is won by the good temper and grace displayed while dancing... for dancing is practiced to reveal whether lovers are in good health and sound of limb, after which they are permitted to kiss their mistresses in order that they may touch and savor one another thus to ascertain if they are shapley or emit an unpleasant odor as of bad meat. Therefore, from this standpoint, quite apart from the many other advantages to be derived from dancing, it becomes an essential to a well-ordered society.

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

If you don't do your dance, who will?

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.

If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.