It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
Interpretation
Creation and mastery require patience and dedication.
This quote by Fred Astaire emphasizes the importance of taking the necessary time and effort to achieve mastery in any art form, particularly in dance. It suggests that creating something truly remarkable and memorable is a process that cannot be rushed, and it highlights the value of patience and practice in achieving excellence.
In practice
During an inspirational speech about the arts at a school, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of practice and patience.
For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.
Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.
Either the camera will dance, or I will.
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...)
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
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