Maya Plisetskaya quotes

Maya Plisetskaya quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The only weapon I had was my dancing. With that I fought like a general without an army. If I could have saved all the energy I wasted on my struggle it would have sufficed me to cover a dozen ballets.”
-- Maya Plisetskaya

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“Your character is your fate.”
-- Maya Plisetskaya

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“I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.”
“The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.”
“One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.”
“At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.”
“This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.”
“The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill ... its purpose is to reach a political goal,”

Source : "Abu Abbas: from terrorist to peace advocate" by Rob Reynolds, www.cnn.com. May 10, 1996.
“The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.”
“Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.”
“Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to FÃ¼hrer of a people of almost 80 million. ... His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.”

Source : "The Eichmann Memoir" by James Noxon, The Personalist, Cover image Volume 42, Issue 3, onlinelibrary.wiley.com. July 1961.
“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”

Source : Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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