Rudolf Nureyev Quotes
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We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.
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Of course I have a personal life.
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I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!
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What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
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Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.
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As long as my ballets are danced, I will live.
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When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.
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I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.
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For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.
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I’m really alive when I’m on stage.
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The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.
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I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.
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A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
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There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.
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You live as long as you dance.
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The only critic is a full house.
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