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They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.
Kristi Yamaguchi
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An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
Leo Rosten
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My body is an object of work. That's why I think to be an actor is one of the most violent jobs. If you're a pianist, you have your piano. If you're a guitarist, you have your guitar. But if you're a dancer, or you're an actor - your instrument is your body.
Monica Bellucci
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.


Martha Graham
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
Lynn Johnston
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.
Klaus Schulze
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.


Muhammad Iqbal
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If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.
Paul Auster
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It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.


Nanci Griffith
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90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
Patton Oswalt
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From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.
Issey Miyake
I was the first person in my family who was ever interested in dance, or fine art of any kind for that matter - I came from a very humble beginning in San Pedro, California.
Misty Copeland
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A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.


Issey Miyake
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Take a martial art or a sport, something that gives you a skill, engages the body, and allows you the possibility of being great - or at least being active. You'll find your confidence. Without it, you're nothing. It's the remedy for everything.
Jason Statham
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We're dancing from here, from inside, not from outside. You could look at anybody throwing their leg and kick their leg up and a million pirouettes and do all kinds of tricks and stuff like that. But that's not what dance is really about.
Judith Jamison
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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.


Anish Kapoor
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.


Bernie Siegel
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You have to execute. You have to sacrifice your body.


Pedro Martinez
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Your body has space within you that cannot die.


Wayne Dyer
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