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Margot Fonteyn Biography

Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE (18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991), was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet, eventually being appointed Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the company by Queen Elizabeth II.

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I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

Age, Friends, Live, Money, Running, Wanted

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

Achievement, Ambition, Generally, Hands, Happier, Striving

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Catch, Forms, Patterns, Return, Trying

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

Child, Children, Dance, Down, Jumping, Street

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Dance, Dancing, Magic, Whole, Word, Point

Dancers are both athletes and artists.

Art, Artists, Athlete, Athletes, Dancers, Dancing

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time

Ballet, Dance, Firsts, Minor, Revelation, Things

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Self Esteem, Self Respect, Seriously, Take, Women, Work

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Life, Offstage, Sometimes, Unchoreographed, Wilderness, World

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

Dance, Ballet, Way, Profession, Life

Genius is another word for magic.

Genius, Inexplicable, Magic, Word

There is no way anything of value can be done without some framework. It might well be that the framework is discarded or the rules opposed; that is not important. What is essential is that they exist so that one knows when one is in opposition to them.

Discarded, Done, Essentials, Important, Opposed

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

Civilization, Dance, Divorced, Natural, Remote, Special

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

Dance, Dancing, Engaged, Seriously, Taken

The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.

Like, People, Place, Rewarding, Way, World

I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

Artist, Long, Takes, Think, Thinking

the first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born.

Baby, Criticism, Fast, Make, Night, Worst

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