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Choreographer Inspirational Quotes (3158)

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Usually you read a script and you know somebody who knows somebody who maybe knew that person or met them once.
Amanda Schull
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Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.
Amanda Schull
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You don't want to burn any bridges, but you also want to make sure you leave your character bridges wide open and you're never seen as one particular thing, or that's who you'll be, unfortunately, for the rest of your career.
Amanda Schull
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I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.
Amanda Schull
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What a person feels within themselves and about themselves radiates from them. Trust me, I have worked with people - both men and women - who are not what most would consider conventionally attractive, but who exude such a magnetism about them that people are compelled to watch them on stage or screen.
Amanda Schull
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Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.
Amanda Schull
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A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.
Amanda Schull
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I enjoyed acting growing up I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.
Amanda Schull
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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
Pablo Picasso
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A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
Alwin Nikolais
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Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.
Alvin Ailey
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But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.
Alvin Ailey
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One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.
Alvin Ailey
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My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
Alvin Ailey
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Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.
Alvin Ailey
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I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.
Alvin Ailey
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I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.
Alvin Ailey
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My main priority now is that my kids are happy that's my number-one focus in life. Are these little people happy, content, and getting everything they need? Everything after that is secondary. Before, my work was my main priority -- even above myself.
Jennifer Lopez
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Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity.
Alonzo King
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Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate.
Alonzo King
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My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury.
Alonzo King
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Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.
Alonzo King
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The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.
Alonzo King
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The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.
Alonzo King
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