Baby Quote by Margot Fonteyn

“the first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born.” quote by Margot Fonteyn — Download Open image

“the first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born.”

Margot Fonteyn

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...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

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Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether…

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“People who live in big cities are deprieved, consciously or unconsciously, of those almost indefinable things on which our human sensitivity feeds, like the first breath of morning country air imperceptibly scented by dew; the glint of late afternoon sun through pale green leaves; the whiff of wood smoke or even the distant sound of barking carried across fields. A…

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The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved…

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Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

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Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

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I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

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Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time

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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

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