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 have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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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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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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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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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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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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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.
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My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.
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All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that's the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference.
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Vorpal had the trick of adding a Malay enclitic to his utterances. This also had power to irritate, especially in the mornings. It irritated Nabby Adams that this should irritate him, but somewhere at the back of his brain was the contempt of the man learned in languages for the silly show-off, jingling the small change of ‘wallah’ and charpoy...
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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.
