Margot Fonteyn (Margaret Evelyn) Quotes

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

Margot Fonteyn

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• As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Important
  • History
  • Think

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Myself
  • Decision

• I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Facts
  • Try
  • Flavor

• I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Never
  • Role

• I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Different
  • School
  • Way

• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.

  

  Yuna
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Simple
  • Architecture
  • Calm

• The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Time
  • Party
  • Single

• Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Three

• The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Fear
  • Me

• I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Perfect

• I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Heart
  • Kind
  • Size

• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hate

• Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man's disease.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Thinking
  • Gay
  • Magic

• Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • Movie
  • Magic

• Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Creative

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

  

  Margot Fonteyn
  • Magic