Ballet Dancer

🇺🇸Martha Graham

Education

1894–1991

"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused."

Tigran Sargsyan

Music

b. 1960

"We cannot develop unless we enjoy both internal and external freedom: even the freedom of thinking about freedom."

🇺🇸Mikhail Baryshnikov

Entertainment

b. 1948

"The more injuries you get, the smarter you get."

🇨🇦Neve Campbell

Entertainment

b. 1973

"I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes."

🇺🇸Isadora Duncan

Literature

1877–1927

"But the dance of the future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, is mere merchandise."

🇬🇧Audrey Hepburn

Entertainment

1929–1993

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."

🇵🇱Vaslav Nijinsky

1890–1950

"People like eccentrics and they will therefore leave me alone, saying that I am a "mad clown."

🇬🇧Margot Fonteyn

Literature

1919–1991

"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."

🇨🇳Jin Xing

Law

b. 1967

"This city is a completely female city. Female town. Beijing is male. All rough and politics. Shanghai is more delicate. Money talks. Beautiful. I had enough rough. I need details. Specially because a lady. I need city."

🇮🇹Alessandra Martines

Entertainment

b. 1963

"I am overjoyed, but I repeat: it is not my country which awards me. In Italy, those who make a name for themselves in other countries are ignored."