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There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.
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It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
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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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Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.
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There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.
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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.
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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.
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Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
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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?
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Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
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Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
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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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