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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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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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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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
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I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?
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To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
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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.
