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"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
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"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."
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"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
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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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"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."
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"Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet."
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"I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted."
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"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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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 think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
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"You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case."
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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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"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
Ballet
"Classical ballet will never die."
Ballet
"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."
Study
"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull."
Life
"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."
Children
"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."
Dance
"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."
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"Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing."
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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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