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

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

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

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

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?

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

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.