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"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
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"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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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."
"Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do."
"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."
"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?"
"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."
"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."
"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
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