Top 40 Quotes About Margot Fonteyn

#1. Game over, you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to
the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.

David Levithan

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#2. Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

E. M. Forster

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#3. The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

Margot Fonteyn

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#4. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

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#5. The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

Margot Fonteyn

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#6. Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

Chita Rivera

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#7. I've found the perfect partner.

Margot Fonteyn

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#8. Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Margot Fonteyn

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#9. Maybe before you start flirting with boys and kissing boys and trying to date boys, you should know who you are and where you stand.

Jill Santopolo

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#10. Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Margot Fonteyn

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#11. His two front teeth are slightly crooked, veer just a tiny bit to the right, as if they've decided perfection is overrated. His smile is like unlocking a riddle. How does an imperfection make him seem more perfect?

Julie Buxbaum

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#12. There is no way anything of value can be done without some framework. It might well be that the framework is discarded or the rules opposed; that is not important. What is essential is that they exist so that one knows when one is in opposition to them.

Margot Fonteyn

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#13. Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

Margot Fonteyn

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#14. My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.

Michael Schumacher

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#15. Personally, I have learned to welcome the sensation of boredom when I'm working out because boredom can actually provide opportunities that are relaxing and, dare I say it, even useful.

Hanne Blank

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#16. The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.

Margot Fonteyn

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#17. I explained it when I danced it.

Margot Fonteyn

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#18. I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

Margot Fonteyn

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#19. Genius is another word for magic.

Margot Fonteyn

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#20. A new Christian cannot be called spiritual, simply because he has not had sufficient time to grow and develop in Christian knowledge and experience.

Charles C. Ryrie

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#21. There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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#22. Shades of Harry the deserter, I thought furiously. What in God's name is the British army coming to? Glorious traditions, my aunt Fanny.

Diana Gabaldon

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#23. Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Margot Fonteyn

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#24. Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others.

Nirmala Srivastava

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#25. Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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#26. Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Margot Fonteyn

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#27. Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

Margot Fonteyn

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#28. The first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born.

Margot Fonteyn

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#29. Dancers are both athletes and artists.

Margot Fonteyn

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#30. If you fall-and trust me, you will- make sure you fall on your back. Because if you fall on your back, you can see up. And if you can see up, you can get up. And you can keep going and going and going.

Hoda Kotb

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#31. Religion is often politics made sacred.

Gloria Steinem

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#32. Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

Margot Fonteyn

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#33. Generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

Margot Fonteyn

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#34. I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

Margot Fonteyn

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#35. Party like a bonobo!

Susan Block

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#36. Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.

Margot Fonteyn

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#37. Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Margot Fonteyn

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#38. Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#39. The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Margot Fonteyn

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#40. The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

Margot Fonteyn

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