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Robert Smith

"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."

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"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."

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"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."

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"I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why."

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"Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet."

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"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."

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"I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition."

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

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"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."

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Akiroq Brost

"Classical ballet will never die."

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Akiroq Brost

"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."

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"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."

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"Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice."
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"I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston."
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"I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine."
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"I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us."
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"I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there."
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"You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us."
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"You don't really know a song until you play it live."
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"I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job."
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"They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are."
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"Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts."
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