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Ninette de Valois

"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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."

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"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."

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Akiroq Brost

"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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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

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"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."

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

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Akiroq Brost

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

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

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"Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?"

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Ninette de Valois
"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

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

Ballet

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Ninette de Valois
"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull."

Life

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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."

Dance

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Ninette de Valois
"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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Ninette de Valois
"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

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Ninette de Valois
"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."

Dance

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Ninette de Valois
"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

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

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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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