Makarova Natalia Quotes & Sayings

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

People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance. — Natalia Makarova

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

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

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand. — Allan Kozinn

I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost — John Steinbeck

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

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep. — Patrick White

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

Even the ears must dance. — Natalia Makarova

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back. — Rodrigo Santoro

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily. — Natalia Makarova

My flaws are what wake me up in the morning and what keep me awake every night. — Colleen Hoover

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things ... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling. — Natalia Makarova

He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable. — Plato

I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself. — Natalia Makarova

A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality. — Natalia Makarova

Anything worthy of your passion, should be worthy of your preparation. — Sue Enquist

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

I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it. — Natalia Makarova

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance. — Natalia Makarova

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

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains. — Natalia Makarova

For the rest of my life?" His voice softens. "Do you want that, Ella May? Do you want me eternally, infinitely, forever, till death do us part? — Jessica Sorensen

We finally settled on Francis Ford Coppola's version of Dracula, which, unfortunately, Gabriel seemed to think was a comedy. I think it was the combination of Keanu Reeves's British accent and Gary Oldman's elderly Count Dracula hairstyle. They're just misleading. — Molly Harper

I think that being on the road and doing more and more stand-up has allowed me to figure out ... like, I don't think I'll ever be Bill Hicks, but I think I'm figuring out what my opinion is on things. — Nick Kroll

Being spontaneous, it's what saved me, — Natalia Makarova

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

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

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

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world. — Natalia Makarova

My cheeks are red hot,
my lip still trembles,
because I sent my heart
to speak; every word of it
delusional and awkward,
an exuberance, an abrupt sound.
That's how I spoke, oh, it still
shows on my hot cheeks
I'm now carrying home.
I look down at the snow
and walk past many houses,
past many hedges, many trees,
the snow adorns hedge, tree and house.
I walk on, staring down
at the snow, on my cheeks
nothing but red-hot memory
reminding me of my wild talk. — Robert Walser

I want to be free ... free to develop my art. — Natalia Makarova

I think often that God is guiding me. — Natalia Makarova

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

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

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life. — Chris Isaak

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