gobeline’s Reviews > I'll Never Change My Name: An Immigrant's American Dream from Ukraine to the USA to Dancing with the Stars > Status Update

“Ballroom is like the mob, the only way out is in a casket.” // “to me, love was always a verb; love didn’t just happen, you have to make it happen.”

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“Curiosity killed the cat, but pride was there as a co-conspirator.”

“I’ve read surveys about what children enjoy most about participating in sports; surprisingly, winning doesn’t even make the top five. Number one being getting better at the skills involved. In other words, growth! That is what makes people, happiest, not only children, but adults too. The sense of achieving, improving, growing. That also happens to be the quality that impresses the audience of DWTS.”

“-that fact has reinforced my faith in my fellow human beings. It turned out that many people felt as I did: that what was important in life, finally, was not the glitz in the glam or in the flashy step, but growth.”

“I’ve learned the startling lesson on the show, audience members have the displayed uncanny ability to recognize personal growth on the part of the contestants; I didn’t believe it at first, but the results had proved it to be true season after season, year after year. It’s a little odd, but the voters don’t necessarily reward the best dancer, they have tended to support who has grown most significantly.”

I had no clue that Kenny Ortega choreographed dirty dancing

“the brighter the spotlight, the brighter I’ll shine”