Judith Jamison Quotes
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 don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
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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.
