War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.

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• Ninette de Valois:

  You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn

• Ninette de Valois:

  Classical ballet will never die.

• Ninette de Valois:

  So it takes years to make a solid company.

• Ninette de Valois:

  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.

• Ninette de Valois:

  Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the u

• Ninette de Valois:

  Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passan

• Ninette de Valois:

  There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

• Ninette de Valois:

  First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other tim

• Ninette de Valois:

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