Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share
God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently… — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
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… — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
