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Show me slowly what I onlyknow the limits ofDance me to the end of love

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Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone mus...

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Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in ...

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Robot. Is. Sad. Because silly bitch. Will. Not. Dance.

Never stop moving, or you'll stop moving. I go to dance class every morning, and it's just good to s...

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In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.I Name you Calvin.I Name you Mr. Jenkins.I Name you Proginoskes....

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It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my min...

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Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been h...

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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth li...

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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live b...

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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of thei...

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There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never ...

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I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...

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To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...

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I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the b...

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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...

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You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of th...

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Martha GrahamBlood Memory

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that ev...

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People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and ...

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Martha GrahamBlood Memory

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone be...

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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's c...

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Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. ...

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The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think ...

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Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished,...

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Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful s...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political b...

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Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED ...

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Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken......

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My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to ...

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There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be in...

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The Give and Take Athletic Association lived up to its name. The hall of the association in Orchard ...

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O. HenryThe Complete Works of O. Henry

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedi...

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I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance.

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the w...

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I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and t...

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Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and...

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The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in...

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If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh a...

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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance numbe...

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Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been th...

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Shel SilversteinA Light in the Attic

For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service o...

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When Geoffrey was away, the goat often took himself off. He had soon got the goats at Granny’s cotta...

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Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way ...

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When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it alwa...

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I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill ...

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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrewsNot to be born is the best for manThe second be...

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I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

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W. H. AudenCollected Poems

It was a sordid scene. Philip leaned over the rail, staring down, and he ceased to hear the music. T...

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Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, ...

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, ...

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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legis...

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in h...

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I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and pass...

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You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery.

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high...

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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own sid...

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If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly b...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

For some reason, the sight of snow descending on fire always makes me think of the ancient world – l...

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Anthony PowellA Question of Upbringing

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which...

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You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

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Aphra BehnThe Emperor of the Moon: A Dialogue-Pantomime; With Alterations

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and d...

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It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a s...

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A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man...

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Ayn RandThe Romantic Manifesto

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

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Ayn RandThe Romantic Manifesto

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what ...

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There are different forms of seduction, and the kind I have witnessed in Persian dancers is so uniqu...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you in...

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Then Bacchus and Silenus and the Maenads began a dance, far wilder than the dance of the trees; not ...

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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all ove...

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him...

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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit ...

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I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.

I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even w...

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No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazin...

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He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right t...

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I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and th...

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Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Ja...

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If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!

I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips th...

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Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dan...

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