Ninette de Valois Quotes

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.

Ninette de Valois

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: June 6, 1898 - March 8, 2001

Topics

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I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

Jim Dale

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I get that there is no one quite like me, nor should there be anybody quite like anybody else in any field. I've always said, 'Don't be the next anyone; be the first you.'

Mauro Ranallo

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I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

Steven Soderbergh

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There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

Trent Dilfer

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Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.

Tony Bellew

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I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

Mary McCarthy

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I visited Libya in September 1996 for the 27th anniversary of the 'revolution' - a military coup that a 27-year-old Gadhafi led to topple the monarchy and since which he has ruled. Some were optimistic that Gadhafi's 'revolution' could herald a new Libya, but it didn't take long for his brutality to stamp out any such hopes.

Mona Eltahawy

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The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

Joshua Bell

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I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.

Jarvis Cocker

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I always wanted to be an actor. It's something I always secretly wanted. You know, I had the experience of being picked on as a child, and I would tell people, 'You're gonna be sorry when I'm famous!' And then I learned after they kicked the stuffing out me that you don't say that out loud.

DJ Qualls

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The important thing is to write when your brain is at its best. Work edits or do outside reading with the rest of the day.

Douglas Brunt

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You can't guarantee everything's going to be televised.

Brian Lamb

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