Judith Jamison quotes
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“It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.”
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“I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance”
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“Dance is about never-ending aspiration.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
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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.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
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“If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
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“The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
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“You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?”
-- Judith JamisonSource : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
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“Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way”
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“We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?”
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“Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.”
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“Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
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“People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : womenSports magazine, September 1975.
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“I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
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“So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
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“I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it and wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : womenSports Magazine, September 1975.
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“I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.”
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“I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
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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.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : "I just wanted to be the best in the world" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2001.
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“Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.”
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“The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.”
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“I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.”
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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.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
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“I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?”
-- Judith Jamison#Native American Quotes #African American Quotes #Gone Quotes
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“It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.”
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“Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn't work for everybody. It's the lifestyle, it's the stamina, it's the love, it's the dedication, it's the commitment, it's all those words.”
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“Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.”
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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.”
-- Judith JamisonSource : "Portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2007.
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“I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.”
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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 been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.”
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