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Ninette de Valois

"Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do."

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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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"Dance, as if nobody is watching. Love, as if you have never been hurt before."

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"If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look."

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"So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do."

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"It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance."

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"If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay."

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"Dancing came easy to me."

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"I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting."

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"Actually I dance really well on the floor."

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"The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers."

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"I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career."

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"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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"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."
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"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."
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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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"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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"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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"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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