"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 WELL!"

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Rudolf Nureyev

#Believe Quotes #Ballet Quotes #Gone Quotes

“I just want things to work properly.”
“To do or not to do... that is the question.”
“The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.”
“Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?”
“Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.”
“When I'm not working, I'm definitely a no-makeup girl. The most I ever do is a little tinted moisturizer and a little mascara and blush.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.”
“Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith”

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