Margot Fonteyn (Margaret Evelyn) Quotes
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.
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I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.
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As you wake up to sort of Morocco coming to life, and you drive a two hour journey through the desert as the sun is rising over the sand dunes... I saw landscapes and visual stuff that I'll never forget. It was special.
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I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.
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I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.
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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
