Judith Jamison Quotes
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I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.
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I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.
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Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.
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The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
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Dance is about never-ending aspiration.
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Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.
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People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
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I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.
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Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.
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Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
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I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance.