Ninette de Valois Quotes

Irish - Dancer | June 6, 1898 - March 8, 2001

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

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GoodNot Good EnoughEnoughEither

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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GodFeetFeelYouUnderstandLegs

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

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ShoesFoodWarYesAnythingOh

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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TogetherInterestingYouStopOthers

Classical ballet will never die.

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DieWillNeverBalletClassical

So it takes years to make a solid company.

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CompanyYearsSolidMakeTakes

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

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LifeDoingNewAlwaysSomethingGet

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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AttentionWillBecomeMeanWonderful

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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LosingAttentionYouLoseNewNever

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

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InfluenceNeverWithoutWonderfulHe

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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GoodLearnBadImportantFirstOut

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

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DanceYouLikeSopranosThen

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