1,434 Quotes About Dance

  • Author Delta Burke
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    For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.

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  • Author Elizabeth Bowen
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    ... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.

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  • Author Emily Blunt
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    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.

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  • Author George Balanchine
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    The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

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  • Author George Balanchine
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    In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

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  • Author George Balanchine
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    Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

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