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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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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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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Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.
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Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.
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With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.
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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.
