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There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

Ninette de Valois

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Ninette de Valois
Age: 102 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 6
Died: 2001
Died: March 8
Ballet Choreographer
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Ballet Teacher
Choreographer
Film Director
Librettist
Teacher
Writer
Edris Stannus
Dame Ninette de Valois
Indifferent
Nothing
Good
World

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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.
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The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
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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 it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.
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Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.
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Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.
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You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
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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.
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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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It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
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You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
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Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
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