#dancer

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. ↗

— Martha Graham

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The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

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You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie. ↗

— Robert Duvall

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I wanted to be a male ballet dancer. ↗

— Scott Thompson

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I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

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It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

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How can we know the dancer from the dance? ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician's loneliness echoes in his performance. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

#artist #artists #artists-life #dancer #musician

I am not a natural dancer. ↗

— Ricki Lake

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My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

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