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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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"Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you."
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"The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing."
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"Love is a dance."
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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
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"Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts."
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"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."
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"Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind."
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"I never really did any disco dancing."
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"Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail."
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"If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it."
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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
"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."
Attention
"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
Ballet
"So it takes years to make a solid company."
Company
"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull."
Life
"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."
Food
"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."
Attention
"The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method."
Study
"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
"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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