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"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."
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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves."

"The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going."

"I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great."

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

"You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing."

"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."

"The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail."
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"Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do."

"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."

"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."

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

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