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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I shake hands on the first date.
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A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
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Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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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.
