Darcey Bussell Quotes

Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year at the Royal Ballet School, Margot's statue was outside my dormitory. Like generations of budding ballet dancers before me, I used to touch her middle finger for luck.

Darcey Bussell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 27, 1969

Topics

MomentSchoolMeLuckYearRoyal

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

John C. Hawkes

GoodWritingFictionStartedKnew

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

Jerome Kern

MusicMeBetterCreditWriteLike

The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.

John Dickerson

GoodFatherChildrenChildhoodRisk

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

Andrew Vachss

ChildrenSocietyEnemiesAny

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.

Tom Stoppard

CharacterWomanManI AmPlayWrite

I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.

Ruth Reichl

FoodThinkFirstPieceI Think

Well, there are different levels of love.

Jay Weatherill

LoveWellDifferentLevels

I don't walk around big headed. I'm not a superstar.

DMX

WalkBigSuperstarAroundHeaded

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

Craig Ferguson

MeWantTalkRopeLate-NightShow

Growing up, I used to babysit, but, thinking back on what I was like at 15, this was probably a terrible idea.

Corey Stoll

Growing UpThinkingBackGrowingUp

No matter what, the way to learn to program is to write code and rewrite it and see it used and rewrite again. Reading other people's code is invaluable as well.

Brian Kernighan

PeopleReadingLearnWayMatterSee

Gilbert Gottfried, I think, is just the most underappreciated comedian in the world. I think that he doesn't get enough credit for how funny he is.

Brett Gelman

FunnyWorldThinkEnoughCreditGet

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