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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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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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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I think Kareena Kapoor is gorgeous. She is effortless. I have never seen her go overboard with her make-up or the way she dresses. Even off-screen or when travelling, she looks gorgeous.
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No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
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The concern is, with the extension of that program, a lot of the vendors that are designing and scoring these tests are dealing with volumes of tests that they have not experienced before, as the testing program in essence doubles this spring across the country. It's a high-stakes test, and accuracy is so important.
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
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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.
