Quotes About Rudolf Nureyev

#1. While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

Celia Imrie

#2. I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum had to break it to me that not only was he gay, but he was dead.

Jessica Brown Findlay

#3. You live as long as you dance.

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#4. I'm sorry, too,' she said.
'For what?'
'For acting mad at you all the time.'
'It's okay,' he said, 'sometimes I like it.'
'But not always.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

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#6. The only critic is a full house.

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#7. Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

Robert Breault

#8. What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

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#9. We danced with one body, one soul ... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

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#10. Haruka: I was waiting out front, but you never came. So I came looking for you. And sure enough you're in the midget's clutches!

Otani: This isn't a B-movie, it's a school where you aren't a student!

Aya Nakahara

#11. The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

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#12. Of course I have a personal life.

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#13. I've seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart.

Albert Camus

#14. I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

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#15. As long as my ballets are danced, I will live

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#16. I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.

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#17. One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

Winston Churchill

#19. I'm really alive when I'm on stage,

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#20. The abuse of prescription pills is a real thing. I understand that there are people that really need them and I understand that there are people that abuse them, and it's just a gray line that unfortunately has to exist.

Channing Tatum

#21. I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.

Ayn Rand

#22. My feet are dogs.

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#23. There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

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#24. Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

A.R. Rahman

#25. For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

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#26. I am still on stage. If you read Press ... you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!

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#27. I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.

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#28. A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

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#29. When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

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