You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

Being a mother has made my life complete.

I've achieved everything I've wanted to achieve, so I'm not scared of failure. I never gave up, however bad the injuries got.

We only open a couple of presents on Christmas morning we're all about the stockings - we even get them for the dogs!

I've always been quite famous for my nose.

A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.

For me, in my life, dyslexia has been a little bit of a blessing. It helped me find my strength and directed me towards what I really wanted to do.

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of the story.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.

I don't have a sprinter's body.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.

He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.