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

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.

Targets don't fight crime.

My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them. They'll come up and ask: 'so when you turned your head slightly in that scene, what were you thinking?'

I like the idea of baking. Id like to be good at it. But I feel like Im young and one day I can be.

He has shown all you people what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

I like what Proenza Schouler is doing. I also love the Miu Miu chunky embellished shoes and really like Prada as well.

It's an odd world.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.

Follow your dreams believe in yourself and dont give up.

So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

Japan is the perfect example of make plans, and watch God laugh.

I've always said the Olympics are special to me.

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

When a man wants to relax he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby anything from building models to watching sport.