Natalia Makarova Quotes

#1. Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

Natalia Makarova

#2. I want to be free ... free to develop my art.

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#3. If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse.

John Gurdon

#4. Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself
it is the occurring which is difficult.

Stephen Leacock

#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

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#9. We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

Nick Hornby

#10. It's a hard life ... but if I could, I would do it all again.

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#11. If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.

Nadia Comaneci

#12. Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

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#13. People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.

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#14. You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

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#15. 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.

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#16. The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

Helen Keller

#17. The smartest fish are still in the sea.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.

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#20. Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

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#21. Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.

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#22. To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

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#23. 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.

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#24. I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.

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#25. 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.

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#26. I think often that God is guiding me.

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#27. Being spontaneous, it's what saved me,

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#28. 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.

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#29. All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

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#30. I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

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#31. Even the ears must dance.

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#32. What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.

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#33. All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

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