Margot Fonteyn Quotes

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 18, 1919 - February 21, 1991

Topics

LifeGreatArtPeopleMediocrity

For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.

Jessica Chastain

TimePeopleMeFeelSayModern

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

John Cage

NaturePurposeHerHighestOperation

A huge part of my identity is being a woman, and that's really important for me, and that's a big part of my self-expression, so I think it's really interesting sort of exploring what it means if someone doesn't have that.

Angourie Rice

WomanIdentityMeThinkInteresting

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

Steve Israel

New YorkInsuranceResultNewSaw

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Tristan Tzara

FutureRestLiteratureHuman

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

Josiah Royce

EyesWorldThoughtFindTruePoor

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

Bob Newhart

ThinkChildlikeComediansJustStill

With any free time I have, I'd take a high energy work out class at Soul Cycle, grab an outdoor bite somewhere by the beach and then finish it off by lounging at my pool.

Tia Mowry

WorkTimeBeachSoulFreeEnergy

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

Richard Chamberlain

GodMyselfReligionMeConversation

I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.

Marion Cotillard

MyselfDepressionFeelLoseStarted

I wanted to make a movie that celebrates the outsider, the one who is different, the one who is not normal - and show how important that is.

Morten Tyldum

ImportantOutsiderNormalDifferent

I don't like to limit myself as an actress.

Kriti Sanon

MyselfLimitActressLike

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