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1. "It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops." ~ Ninette De Valois
2. "Classical ballet will never die." ~ Ninette De Valois
3. "As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves." ~ Ninette De Valois
4. "Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do." ~ Ninette De Valois
5. "Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits." ~ Ninette De Valois
6. "Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes." ~ Ninette De Valois
7. "So it takes years to make a solid company." ~ Ninette De Valois
8. "There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence." ~ Ninette De Valois
9. "There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent." ~ Ninette De Valois
10. "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." ~ Ninette De Valois
11. "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
12. "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." ~ Ninette De Valois
13. "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?" ~ Ninette De Valois
14. "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." ~ Ninette De Valois
15. "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." ~ Ninette De Valois

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I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc."
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