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“I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.”
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“Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.”
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“You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.”
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“Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.”
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“One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.”
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“For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.”
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“The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.”
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“There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.”
Source : Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket
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“It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.”
