"Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes."

-- Natalia Makarova

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“Failure makes me work even harder.”
“Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.”

Source : "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. September 18, 2011.
“Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.”
“I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.”
“Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.”
“Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.”

Source : Radclyffe Hall (1956). “The well of loneliness”, Anchor
“Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort must therefore be made in order for all Christians to transform themselves into 'witnesses,' ready and able to shoulder the commitment of testifying - always and to everyone - to the hope that animates them.”
“I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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