The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

Classical ballet will never die.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

In my player, I have a Luis Miguel CD as well as a Brian McKnight CD. I'm known for my very romantic ballads as well as the fun, up-tempo pop songs.

I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.

So how was it?" she asked. "Kissing Curran?" "I can't let him kiss me again, because if he does, I'll sleep with him." Andrea blinked. "Well," she said finally, "At least you know where you stand.

I went to the Avengers: Age of Ultron and I'm like, "These guys are Olympians now." There's no place for a Walter Matthau in a movie anymore.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.