Katherine Dunham Quotes
Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I don't mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.
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I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.
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Growing up, there was a lot of pressure for women to be good-looking, but my mum was very strict, and she didn't allow me to wear make-up. Looking back, it was good for me. It slowed me down from becoming an adult too quickly.
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Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.
