Induces Mediocrity Quotes by Margot Fonteyn

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• The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one…
• Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.
• I’ve found the perfect partner.
• Dancers are both athletes and artists.
• The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is…
• Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself…
• Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art…
• Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who…
• The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self…
• I explained it when I danced it.
• Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
• Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

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