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Either the camera will dance, or I will.
Fred Astaire
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Fred Astaire
Age: 88 †
Born: 1899
Born: May 10
Died: 1987
Died: June 22
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I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.
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This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
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I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.
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If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.
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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 that stiff, square newness out of it.
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And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.
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I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.
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Why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?
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If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.
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Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.
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Chance is the fool's name for Fate
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I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.
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We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.
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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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Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.
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Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.
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Slippery stages were the terror of my life.
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Dancing is a sweat job.
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Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
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It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.
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