Quotes by Judith Jamison - Page 2

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.
Judith Jamison / Dancer
Children
Pride
Self Worth
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I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out. It could be your next-door neighbor; it could be somebody upstairs from you, somebody down the block from you. An aunt or an uncle. Some relative. A parent.
Judith Jamison / Dancer
Aunt
Block
Neighbor
Parent
Relative
Upstairs
Flock
Seek
Mentors
Next-Door Neighbor
Uncle
Young People
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One thing I cannot stand is when people say, 'Hi, how are you?' and they don't wait to hear how I am. They're just going through the motions. I say to people: 'Keep it human. Keep it alive. Don't turn into a robot.' You have to hear what the other person is saying clearly.
Judith Jamison / Dancer
Hi
Motions
People Say
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My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a taste of the menu. Today, dancers need to try as many companies as possible without having a drop-dead loyalty to me or anyone else. They like to have the leeway to go their own way.
Judith Jamison / Dancer
Loyalty
Taste
Today Me Way
Anyone Else
Dancers
Leeway
Menu
Pickup
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People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don't remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It's an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind.
Judith Jamison / Dancer
Dancer
Indelible
Legs
Remember
Remember Me
Touched
Inside
High
Memory
Though
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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 Jamison / Dancer
Dark
Light
Moving
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I believe God has a path for me. He's always had a path for me, and I've always been in the right place at the right time - not because of my efforts, but because of my preparation and because of the guides that I have, the mentors that I have, the spiritual walkers that I've had all my life.
Judith Jamison / Dancer
God
Guides
Path
Preparation
Right Place
Spiritual
Life Time God
Life Time Always
Because
Had
All My Life
Been
He
Life God Time
Efforts
Place
Mentors
My Life
Right
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My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'Look, it's not going to be scandalized. I'm not going to talk about anybody like a dog. I'm going to say the positiveness of my life, and talk about those who have contributed to the way I've been going, and that's that.'
Judith Jamison / Dancer
Jackie
Onassis
Life Me Look
Asked
Editor
Life Look Me
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The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It's a cornucopia of ways to move. There are choreographers in the company as - as diverse, as different from each other as Donald McKayle and Bill T. Jones, or Jawole Zollar and John Butler, Lar Lubovitch, you know, and Judith Jamison.
Judith Jamison / Dancer
Diverse
Modern Dance
Transformed
Variety
Butler
Donald
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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 Jamison / Dancer
Dance
Black
Thinking
White
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