Katherine Dunham Quotes

I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

Katherine Dunham

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• New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Walking
  • New York
  • Mirrors

• I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Know

• I'm extremely determined and ambitious.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Determined
  • Ambitious

• I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Men
  • Singing
  • Gold

• Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • Live
  • Experience

• I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Soul
  • Think
  • Words

• If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Parent

• I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

  

  Ice T
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Car

• I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Watch
  • Press

• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happiness
  • Cause
  • Others

• I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Better
  • Class
  • Environmental

• I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Different
  • Film

• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Suffering
  • Principle

• I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Media

• Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Parents
  • Just
  • Brilliant

• I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Attention

• People can be successful for a short period of time, but only a handful of people are successful for decades.

  

  Michelle Wolf
  • People
  • Period
  • Successful

• The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Danger
  • Greatest
  • Stupidity

• Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

  

  Susan Wiggs
  • Learned
  • Teachers
  • Idealists

• Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that they're buying goods and services - and the economy, instead of being on a downward spiral, starts back up on an upward spiral.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Successful