Arthur Mitchell Quotes
Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.
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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.
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Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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The worst things were cowardly acts of betrayal. Betraying a friend and in the process betraying yourself. He knew all about that.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
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I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.
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Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.
