We only open a couple of presents on Christmas morning we're all about the stockings - we even get them for the dogs!

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

Being a mother has made my life complete.

I've achieved everything I've wanted to achieve, so I'm not scared of failure. I never gave up, however bad the injuries got.

I've always been quite famous for my nose.

A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.

For me, in my life, dyslexia has been a little bit of a blessing. It helped me find my strength and directed me towards what I really wanted to do.

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of the story.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.

I am a perfectionist.

It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.

We play a different style than other teams. It's effective, but different. We run the floor, block shots and create turnovers.

I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.