Top 38 Makarova Quotes
#1. All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
Natalia Makarova
#2. To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
Natalia Makarova
#3. I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things ... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.
Natalia Makarova
#4. The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit.
Shashi Tharoor
#5. I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.
Natalia Makarova
#6. I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
Natalia Makarova
#8. It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all timetables.
Pablo Neruda
#10. Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.
Natalia Makarova
#11. Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
Natalia Makarova
#13. The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
Rachel Joyce
#15. What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.
Natalia Makarova
#16. All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
Natalia Makarova
#17. I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
George Michael
#18. It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.
Suzanne Vega
#19. I had become a bit annoyed with Fermi . . . when he suddenly offered to take wagers from his fellow scientists on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.
Richard Rhodes
#20. People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.
Natalia Makarova
#22. More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."
Martin Niemoller
#23. The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.
Natalia Makarova
#24. It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
Natalia Makarova
#25. Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
#26. I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
Natalia Makarova
#28. It's a hard life ... but if I could, I would do it all again.
Natalia Makarova
#29. Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
Natalia Makarova
#30. Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.
Natalia Makarova
#31. I wanted to join them, wanted, above all, to console Mr. Pirzada somehow. But apart from eating a piece of candy for the sake of his family and praying for their safety, there was nothing I could do.
Anonymous
#32. You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
Natalia Makarova
#33. It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.
Natalia Makarova
#34. Maybe there came a point in life where you had to quit categorizing whole groups of people by a few bad experiences.
Lisa Wingate
#35. The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.
Kenneth Coutts-Smith
#36. But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.
Francine Pascal
#37. A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.
Natalia Makarova
#38. Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
Natalia Makarova
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