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"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."
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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."

"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."

"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."

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

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

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

"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."

"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."
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"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."

"Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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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