Katherine Dunham Quotes
I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.
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I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
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The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.
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Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.
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I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.
