Sylvie Guillem Quotes

• Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Hate, Needs, Shy

  "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.

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• Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Women

  "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.

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• Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Dance, Dancing, Perfection

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• I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Dance, Love Is, Feet

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• No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Strong, Monsters, Negative

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• My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Nice, Luck, Weight

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• When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Trying, Shy, Causes

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