A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Strictly' has changed everything for ballroom dancing.

I did ballroom dancing at school, but I was atrocious.

My ballroom dancing skills are completely non-existent.

I'm a phys ed major: that's ballroom dancing and handball.

I know I'm never going to be a professional ballroom dancer.

I started out in the ballroom scene when I was fourteen years old.

I love ballroom dance, my favorite style being the Argentine Tango.

There's a lot of hope and comfort and nurturing in the ballroom scene.

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

Both my brother and I have only had dance experience with ballroom dancing.

I've known Chicago for 50 years; we used to play shows at the Avalon Ballroom.

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

I was the kid who didn't speak English, with a violin and ballroom dance shoes.

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

I'd love the chance to learn ballroom dances, but it's scary to be in the spotlight.

Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.

I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.

I am a ballroom dancer on WWE programming and in my personal life I am no dancer at all.

I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.

Ballroom is its own entity, its own sport. And I have the most respect for what the pros do.

My parents used to go ballroom dancing in their latter years, and it gave them so much pleasure.

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

What young men nowadays don't realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

When I was in the Pussycat Dolls, I did study jazz and pop, but Latin and ballroom were not at all in my world.

I grew up dancing. When I was three years old, my mom would always watch Latin ballroom dancing competitions on PBS.

I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here

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.

Ball culture saved my life, and many people don't understand that. But ballroom is where I found chosen and proven family.

Ballroom dancing is so articulate. Your hips have to be a certain way, legs have to be straight at one time and bent another.

When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ballroom, and it's totally different.

Ballroom is a man's world. It's tough for women, particularly single women. But I've never expected life to be anything but tough.

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!

One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.

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.

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.

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.

The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.

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.

Strictly' has evolved - there are such beautiful stories within each dance. We're not doing a ballroom and Latin competition, it's an entertainment show.

There's so much you can say about the ballroom scene. But, simply, it's just a way of life. It's a place you can live out a fantasy you never lived before.

It's very tough to transfer ballroom technique onto the ice, to give the illusion of the proper hip motion and position, with the speed and glide of the blade.

Even though it is fictional, 'Pose' has really tapped into some realities that I know would come from someone who really took the time to investigate ballroom.

I would have never dreamt in a million years I would go out with a ballroom dancer from Russia, as, when we were younger, we did not even speak the same language.

At school people found it quite funny that I did ballroom, but I recently went to my school reunion and all they wanted to talk about was ballroom and 'Strictly.'

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.

I'm a little embarrassed to talk about it now, but the very first sport that I did, if you can call it sport, was ballroom dancing. I was aged seven to nine or 10.

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