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

Even the ears must dance.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

How have we lived in the same place for all these years and only just met?Because we weren't meant to meet then. This is our now.

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

I still don't get it" Coach Hedge muttered as they roamed the centre aisle. "They named a whole town after Leo's table?""I think the town was here first, Coach" Nico said.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat.

We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

I have learned to consciously avoid letting that thought, It's been done, enter my creative process. You have to try not to edit yourself before you actually shoot.