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Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life. -- Joey McIntyre
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic. -- Baz Luhrmann
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
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
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
Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. -- Heyneke Meyer
I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing. -- Ben Katchor
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
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
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. -- Fred Astaire
Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony. -- Anton du Beke
Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin. -- Marilyn vos Savant
My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated. -- Anton du Beke
I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school. -- Christopher Gorham
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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