Natalia Makarova Quotes

• Even the ears must dance.

  Natalia Makarova

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  Natalia Makarova

  Simple, Giving, Perfection

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.

  Natalia Makarova

  Real, Space, Personality

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• The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

  Natalia Makarova

  Dance, Running, Spiritual

  Natalia Makarova, Gennady Smakov, Dina Makarova (1979). “A dance autobiography”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

  Natalia Makarova

  Motivational, Peace, Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  Natalia Makarova

  Perfect, Done, Proud

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• It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

  Natalia Makarova

  Heart, Steps, Doe

  Natalia Makarova, Gennady Smakov, Dina Makarova (1979). “A dance autobiography”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

  Natalia Makarova

  Brain, Spirituality, Physicality

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• I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

  Natalia Makarova

  Insatiable, New Words

  "Natalia Makarova, Kennedy Center honoree". Interview with Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.

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• Being spontaneous, it's what saved me.

  Natalia Makarova

  Spontaneous, Saved

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• You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

  Natalia Makarova

  Lakes, Swans, Nutcrackers

  "Natalia Makarova, Kennedy Center honoree". Interview with Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.

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• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  Natalia Makarova

  Important Events, Chance, Life Happens

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• What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.

  Natalia Makarova

  Tired, Want, Waste

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• Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

  Natalia Makarova

  Lakes, Swans, Black

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• I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

  Natalia Makarova

  Dance, Erotic, Feelings

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• I think often that God is guiding me.

  Natalia Makarova

  Thinking

  "Natalia Makarova, Kennedy Center honoree". Interview with Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.

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• All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

  Natalia Makarova

  Reading, Ballet, World

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• Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

  Natalia Makarova

  Relaxation, Body, Profession

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• Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.

  Natalia Makarova

  Personality, Criticism, Difficult

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• It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

  Natalia Makarova

  Hard Life, If I Could, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to be free... free to develop my art.

  Natalia Makarova

  Art, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.

  Natalia Makarova

  Preparation, Theatre, Four

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• I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

  Natalia Makarova

  Mother, Gypsy, Know How

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• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  Natalia Makarova

  People, Succeed, Hundred

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• I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

  Natalia Makarova

  Secret

  "Natalia Makarova, Kennedy Center honoree". Interview with Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.

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