"For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have……" — Fred Astaire
"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."
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39 Quotes by Fred Astaire
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of…
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Disco is just jitterbug.
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I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get…
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Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
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If your gonna go down, go down swinging!
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The unpadded shoulders, the three-buttoned long and boxy coat, the too-short, thin pants, and the thin ties with striped buttoned…
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Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.
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When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go…
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I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked…
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Either the camera will dance, or I will.
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