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Ninette de Valois

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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. - Ninette de Valois
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Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. - Ninette de Valois
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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. - Ninette de Valois
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#New
It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. - Ninette de Valois
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#Good
#Not Good Enough
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence. - Ninette de Valois
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#Never
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#Wonderful
So it takes years to make a solid company. - Ninette de Valois
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And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. - Ninette de Valois
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#Dance
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#Sopranos
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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. - Ninette de Valois
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#Everything
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#Important
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. - Ninette de Valois
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#Children
#School
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Classical ballet will never die. - Ninette de Valois
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#Classical
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#Never
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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. - Ninette de Valois
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Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes. - Ninette de Valois
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#Shoes
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#War
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