Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (1881–1931) was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. Pavlova is most recognized for the creation of the role The Dying Swan and, with her own company, became the first ballerina to tour ballet around the world.
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Success is the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one’s ideal.
—Anna Pavlova
Topics: Ideals, Success
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theatre. It lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.
—Anna Pavlova
Topics: Accomplishment
No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.
—Anna Pavlova
Topics: Work
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