Margot Fonteyn
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"Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias", Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire/DBE, was an English ballerina. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of all time. 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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Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

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?

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

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical 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?

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