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"Classical ballet will never die."
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"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."
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"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
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"I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft."
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"I wanted to be a ballet teacher."
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"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
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"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
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"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."
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"I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment."
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"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."
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"I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do."
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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."
Dance
"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."
Time
"Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours."
Life
"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
Ballet
"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
Country
"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull."
Life
"Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do."
Dance
"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?"
God
"So it takes years to make a solid company."
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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."
Children
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