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

Classical ballet will never die.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

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.

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

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

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

So it takes years to make a solid company.

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

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.

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

Better to fight and fall than to live without hope.

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.

I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place I can read without straining my neck, and I take an afternoon nap, which is my reward for making enough money from my writing now not to have to work. I never get up in the morning before 11.30.

I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.

To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.

The only way we are going to ameliorate pressing social needs is through public intervention.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

I want to continue the sport of swimming. I'm not going to give up until I think it's reached where I want it to go.

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant but I wasnt such a big fan.

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

I used almost every penny I ever made to build recording studios in every city I lived in. I don't have much to show for all the TV money except a lot of musical gear and a lot of songs.

The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.

At the beginning I wasnt aware of some of the stuff that goes on. Now I have a heightened awareness of domestic violence and how to spot it.

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world.

Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong.

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.