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Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. -- Heyneke Meyer
Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony. -- Anton du Beke
Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life. -- Joey McIntyre
I wrote Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it. -- Daniel Johns
The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom. -- Daryl Hall
I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it. -- Daniel Johns
We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands. -- Jay McShann
I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it. -- Baz Luhrmann
Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more. -- Anton du Beke
Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin. -- Marilyn vos Savant
I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing. -- Amanda Seyfried
I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school. -- Christopher Gorham
Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes. -- Bruce Forsyth
I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth. -- Joan Rivers
I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish. -- Nigel Lythgoe
It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us. -- Anton du Beke
When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover. -- Bruno Tonioli
The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated. -- Albert Murray
I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom. -- Joey Fatone
I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous. -- Anton du Beke
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did. -- Joan Collins
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. -- Barbara de Angelis
There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom. -- Emmitt Smith
Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve. -- Nolan Bushnell
I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring. -- Adam McKay
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing. -- Karen DeCrow
As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries. -- Emmitt Smith
I've just become obsessed with ballroom dancing. I signed up for the introductory course, which was like a four-week thing. By the end of it, I was hooked. I love it. It's sort of flirty, but it's not sexual. I can't quit until I've got it down and I can really dance. I'm there four or five times a week. -- David Sutcliffe
Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated. -- Anton du Beke
No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else. -- Jane Austen
Today's ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music. -- Bob Hope
The music for 'The Last Five Years' is like running a 26-mile marathon, and singing Sondheim is like ballroom-dancing up Everest. -- Anna Kendrick
I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing. -- Ben Katchor
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic. -- Baz Luhrmann
Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here -- Gail Carriger
I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom... without question. -- Ridley Scott
I would love to do a little ballroom dancing with my husband... He and I can take a couple classes together. It would be a lot of fun! -- Jennifer Grey
Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company. -- Julia Ward Howe
When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us. -- Susan Collins
It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you have a hot dog eating contest, call me. -- Daymond John
Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My feelings have changed about ballroom dancing because when I am mad I can dance to blow some steam off. Dancing is fun because you can dance to tunes like 'Hit the Road Jack'. -- David
Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains. -- Michael Chabon
Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick. -- Neal Shusterman

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