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Ninette de Valois

"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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"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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"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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"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."
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"Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do."
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"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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"Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours."
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"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."
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"So it takes years to make a solid company."
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"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."
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"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."
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