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.
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive.
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
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