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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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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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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There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.
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Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.
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In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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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.
