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Rudolf Nureyev Quotes

I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dancer
Nationality: russian
Birth: March 17, 1938 - January 6, 1993

Topics

Dance Travel Will More Around Often

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

Family Fight You Know Dysfunctional

It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.

Michel Foucault

Government Me Clarity Said Must Far

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Inspirational World Cold Warm You

Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

Learning School Me You Bad Movies

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

Me Camera Alive Working Front Keeps

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Suffering Worth Bring Convictions

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

Long Attention You Know Audience

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

Performance Loved Feeling Inevitable

From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself, you're never going to pick up a live coal again.

Richard Dawkins

Live Perspective Yourself Pain Doing

Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.

Greatness Me Comfort Zone Comfort

I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.

Me Think End Feel Result Person

I was keenly aware when I was drafted, when I signed my first contract; immediately, I was thinking about the end.

Thinking End First Contract Aware

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