Rudolf Nureyev Quotes

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• I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT…
• I’m really alive when I’m on stage,
• The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.
• What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
• You live as long as you dance.
• A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
• Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.
• There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.
• When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class…
• We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.
• My feet are dogs.
• I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question…
• The only critic is a full house.
• Of course I have a personal life.

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