I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to... -Darcey Bussell

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

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Darcey Bussell is a retired English ballerina who was a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet. Her contributions to ballet and dance have made her a revered figure in the world of classical dance, and she is regarded as one of the greatest British ballerinas of her generation.

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I've always been quite famous for my nose....

I loved gymnastics, and my gymnastics teacher said ballet was essential to help my dance routines in competitions. I only really went because my frien...

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

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage....

Life is short, so go for things you enjoy....

Imagination Quotes to Explore

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimula...

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of reader...

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions....

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim....

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to f...

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get m...

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite ...

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but ...

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work....

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 y...