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"We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar."

"One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing."

"So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses."

"I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance."
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"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."

"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."

"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."

"In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth."

"Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister."

"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."

"The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods."

"Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress."
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