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We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics.

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Well, I can't (sing or dance). Actually, I sing like a seal and dance like your Uncle Leo at that wedding where he got up and went 'ya, ya, ya'.

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

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.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.

What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.

Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

What is dance? I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace; Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease; Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest everywhere. Not what we think or say but what we do shall avail - on with the dance.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had'.

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

When I give, I give myself.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.

When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.

When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer

When you are ecstatic and in love, you feel buoyant, you feel life, you feel like you are dancing in the sky.