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Classical ballet will never die. — Ninette De Valois

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one. — Voltaire

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

All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. — Ninette De Valois

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

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs. — Ninette De Valois

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. — Ninette De Valois

If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true. — India.Arie

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun. — Paul Valery

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves. — Ninette De Valois

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. — Ninette De Valois

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. — Yogi Berra

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far. — Mark Twain

So it takes years to make a solid company. — Ninette De Valois

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes. — Ninette De Valois

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence. — Ninette De Valois

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. — Ninette De Valois

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. — Ninette De Valois

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing. — Ninette De Valois

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it. — Ninette De Valois

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it. — A.J. Liebling

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo. — Taylor Lautner

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind. — Edith Piaf

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

A fundamental error in many Christian attacks on Harry Potter has been a narrow, simplistic reading of symbolism. — Travis Prinzi

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours. — Ninette De Valois

An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. — Ninette De Valois