Natalia Makarova Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Even the ears must dance.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Dance Quotes #Ears Quotes
“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

#Simple Quotes #Giving Quotes #Perfection Quotes
“To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Motivational Quotes #Peace Quotes #Lying Quotes
“I want to be free... free to develop my art.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Art Quotes #Want Quotes
“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

#Relaxation Quotes #Body Quotes #Physicality Quotes
“Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Personality Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Difficult Quotes
“I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Dance Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Spirit Quotes
“All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world,”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Reading Quotes #Ballet Quotes #World Quotes
“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

#Dance Quotes #Running Quotes #Spiritual Quotes
“Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Brain Quotes #Spirituality Quotes #Physicality Quotes
“I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Preparation Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Four Quotes
“What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Tired Quotes #Want Quotes #Waste Quotes
“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

#Lakes Quotes #Swans Quotes #Black Quotes
“Being spontaneous, itâ€™s what saved me,”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Spontaneous Quotes
“It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Hard Life Quotes
“All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Important Quotes #Events Quotes #Chance Quotes
“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

#Perfect Quotes #Done Quotes #Proud Quotes
“Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#People Quotes #Succeed Quotes #Hundred Quotes
“Itâ€™s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Thinking Quotes #Identity Quotes #Crisis Quotes
“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

#People Quotes #Dancing Quotes #Endurance Quotes
“I think often that God is guiding me.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Thinking Quotes
“I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Insatiable Quotes
“I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Secret Quotes
“I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Mother Quotes #Gypsy Quotes
“You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.”
-- Natalia Makarova

#Lakes Quotes #Swans Quotes #Nutcrackers Quotes

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