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Ninette de Valois

"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."

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"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

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"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."

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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

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"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

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"Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children."

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"All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps."
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"Classical ballet will never die."
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"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
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"Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then."
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"Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do."
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"The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method."
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"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."
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"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."
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"God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?"
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"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."
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