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"Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness."

"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."

"I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it."

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."

"Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child."

"No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone."
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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?"

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

"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."

"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."

"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."

"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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