Author: Ninette de Valois

Quotes

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

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

- Ninette de Valois

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

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

- Ninette de Valois

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

- Ninette de Valois

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

- Ninette de Valois

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

- Ninette de Valois

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

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

- 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.

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

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?

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

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

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

- Ninette de Valois

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