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Katherine Dunham

"Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us."

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"Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us."

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Akshay Vasu

"My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there."

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Akshay Vasu

"One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way."

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Akshay Vasu

"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."

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Akshay Vasu

"Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!"

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Akshay Vasu

"The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there."

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Akshay Vasu

"In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public."

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Akshay Vasu

"The least touchable object in the world is the eye."

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Akshay Vasu

"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."

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Akshay Vasu

"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."

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Akshay Vasu

"There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with."

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Katherine Dunham
"Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else."

Thinking

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Katherine Dunham
"You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be."

Theatre

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Katherine Dunham
"I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song."

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Katherine Dunham
"Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony."

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Katherine Dunham
"We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings."

Success

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Katherine Dunham
"Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us."

Eye

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Katherine Dunham
"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."

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Katherine Dunham
"Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world."

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Katherine Dunham
"I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people."

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Katherine Dunham
"I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years."

Life

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