I couldn't get into classical companies in the U.S. and Canada. I would make the cuts in auditions and would be one… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers… — George Nolfi Copy Share Image
“I'm Exie and despite what you may hear I am the best dancer here. No one else compares. So, don't even think… — Jennifer Loren Copy Share Image
“I am a Dancer; rehearsing the steps of our unheard song with utmost perfection. Never will you tap your feet consciously. I… — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
I did mega-training with ex-military men. I'd be in the gym for two hours after a 12-hour day on Spooks, and it… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat… — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
“On the big bed, Mamima and Sandeep’s mother began to dream, sprawled in vivid crab-like postures. His aunt lay on her stomach,… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star… — Francia Raisa Copy Share Image
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great… — Emanuel Steward Copy Share Image
The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting,… — George Will Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge dancer onstage. In fact, I like not moving at all if I don't have to. But even just… — Alaska Copy Share Image
I like the line leading up to that: "I made your daughter the lead dancer, and you're not committed!" It's how people… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
I believe you have to start with a craft; you don't just start with a dream. You've got to put a lot… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor.… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
A lot of people might think the job of a model isn't necessary anymore, but just like an actor, singer - how… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had… — Wayne McGregor Copy Share Image
It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
