"First of all, the most important, that is……" — Ninette de Valois
"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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27 Quotes by Ninette de Valois
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Classical ballet will never die.
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No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to…
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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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The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
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There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence
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God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them…
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The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all…
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Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.
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And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
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There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.
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All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know…
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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…
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