Motsi Mabuse Quotes

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Motsi Mabuse

Profession : Dancer

Birth : April 11, 1981

I respect traditions, you can't walk all over them, but at the same time our world is changing. Life is about moving on.

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I don't get that involved in politics because I'm in my dance bubble.

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I just want my daughter to grow up in a society where she feels accepted being South African, German and Ukrainian.

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In a way, it is easier to be the younger sibling, as the older one has to pave the way.

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There's no stopping same-sex dancing couples. I don't understand how people being happy can affect others so much - just let them be.

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The biggest issue for me has been the language because I speak so much German now. I've had to focus on my English and find more words to describe what I want to say and also soften my tone. It was quite stiff from 20 years of speaking German, so when I started speaking more English, oh my god, my tongue was like: 'Argh'!

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I missed my youth because I was dancing, I didn't do all the crazy stuff. I didn't have boyfriends or anything - the first man I met I married!

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I always wanted children but I was scared. Being responsible for a baby is such a big thing so I was nervous!

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I don't want my daughter to ever feel that she can't do something because of her skin colour.

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My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.

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I never see Oti! I see her on the dance floor, I see her shortly at the after party but that's it. In the week she's doing her 'Strictly' zoom and I hardly ever see her.

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Once you've been in the public eye, you are always going to be criticised.

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Strictly is the master of all dance programmes. It's so big!

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You learn not to take things personally, but it can be hard.

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Our parents made a lot of sacrifices because dancing is not the cheapest sport. The dresses are expensive, so my mum learned to sew, and she started a catering company to pay for the lessons and the travel abroad for competitions.

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I'm so thankful for dance because if I had grown up with just the bitterness of the very hard childhood we had, and I'd never 'experienced the love of the dance world, then I probably would have been a very sad person.

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You'll always have someone attacking you in some way. But it's weird from someone who's never met you.

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I know how it feels to work hard and to work with a celebrity.

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There is a word in German, called gerechterweise, which means fairness. I need to be fair, it's just the part of my personality.

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I've danced before, so I know how it feels to stand in front of judges and be critiqued.

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