Judith Jamison Quotes

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.

Judith Jamison

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I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.

Joan Didion

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I won't have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

Stephen Curry

TeamHelpLongCareerPlayHealthy

I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dressed me in a suit, put a mustache under my nose, a cigar in my mouth, a cane in my hand, and a hat on my head.

Mickey Rooney

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Our whole society controls how much you can drink, how many pills you can buy; we have controls we accept on everything else in this society - except guns. Those things are all acceptable to us. But with guns, most people will not even discuss restrictions.

Mike Bouchard

PeopleSocietyYouAcceptWillGuns

There's a Kiss through-line to a lot of the music that came out of Seattle, and it hasn't been talked about a lot.

Mike McCready

MusicKissSeattleOutBeenAbout

I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true.

Julia Sweeney

DreamTrueHousewifeFinallyCome

My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

Brian Posehn

FunnyMeThinkWantTalkPretty

When your name is Twinkle, you are a bookworm, and a fat child, then you have to be ready to be made fun of. As a child, I used my fists a lot, but then the tongue seemed like a better option. So I started using words as a sword to jab fun at myself.

Twinkle Khanna

MyselfWordsFunChildNameBetter

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.

Timothy Simons

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Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.

Ryan Coogler

ArtMindMeKindWaySame

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

Muhammad Iqbal

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And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

James Weldon Johnson

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