You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
Ninette de ValoisWe 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.
Ninette de ValoisFirst 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 ValoisAlso, 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.
Ninette de Valois