Katherine Dunham Quotes
A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
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If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.
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I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews.
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I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
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I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.
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A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
