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I guess since the groin is the center of a guy's world, he rarely guesses it isn't the center of yours.
— Lilith Saintcrow
I explained it when I danced it.
— Margot Fonteyn
Genius is another word for magic.
— Margot Fonteyn
Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.
— Margot Fonteyn
The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.
— John Dunning
Dancers are both athletes and artists.
— Margot Fonteyn
Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.
— Margot Fonteyn
Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.
— Nikolai Bukharin
In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
— Julian Of Norwich
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
— Margot Fonteyn
A yawning hole deep inside me was begging to be filled up with words and thoughts and ideas and facts and fictions.Callum McGregor — Malorie Blackman
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
— Quentin Crisp
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
— Margot Fonteyn
The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.
— Margot Fonteyn
The first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born.
— Margot Fonteyn
Generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.
— Margot Fonteyn
It felt like a war between two endless things, between a bottomless chasm and a running river.
— Naomi Novik
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.
— Shirley Chisholm
Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.
— Margot Fonteyn
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
— David Cassidy
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
— Margot Fonteyn
Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.
— Margot Fonteyn
Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.
— Chita Rivera
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
— Margot Fonteyn
I've found the perfect partner.
— Margot Fonteyn
So may I, blind fortune leading me,Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
And die with grieving. — William Shakespeare