Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.

A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.

I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.

It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy.

Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!

As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.

It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech and apparently 80 of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body not the words.

of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body not the words.

As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when you're a teenager, you're fearless because you don't know the repercussions to anything.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

We won't let you down. We will work together and successfully complete this mission.

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

Working on 'Mad Men,' everything is word for word. And, honestly, I couldn't come up with anything better than that, so it's fine.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Would offering the Mars Prize damage NASA? I don't think so.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention regardless of what your outer circumstances are happiness will flow.

FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability.

I love drafting like I love eating ice cream or having sex; I love revising like I love doing logic puzzles; I love line-editing like I love perfectly organizing a bookshelf; I hate reviewing copyedits and the second round of proofreading because, by then, I'm getting pretty tired of my own words. They all have their own challenges, though.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

On Monday when the sun is hot I wonder to myself a lot. Now is it true or is it not that what is which and which is what

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

It took me six years to be comfortable modeling a swimsuit.

To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to better reflect market fundamentals.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don't have to produce every night.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'

In the 101st Airborne Division headquarters in Mosul, we had a sign on the wall. It was a question that we would ask ourselves before every new operation or policy initiative. It asked: Will this policy or operation take more bad guys off the streets than it creates by its conduct?