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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 never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why."
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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 wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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"I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment."
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"So it takes years to make a solid company."
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"Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing."
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"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."
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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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"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
"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."
Food
"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."
Time
"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."
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"Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours."
Life
"Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful."
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