Anna Pavlova Quotes

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• To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
• Get my swan costume ready.
• What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's…
• The right to happiness is fundamental.
• Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing…
• If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.
• Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
• To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause…
• If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.
• Play the last measure very softly.
• When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.
• God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
• When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one…
• Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
• To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.
• If I can not dance, I shall die!
• Where there is no heart there is no art.
• Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
• Dancing is my gift and my life... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance.…
• I danced from the moment I could stand.

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