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Ritchie Blackmore

"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."

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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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"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."

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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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"Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet."

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"I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition."

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

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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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"Classical ballet will never die."

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"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."

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"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."

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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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