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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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 don't do your dance, who will?

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

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

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.

I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.

I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.

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

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.

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.

I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression.

I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.

I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.