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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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"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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Akshay Vasu

"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."

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Akshay Vasu

"As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing."

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Akshay Vasu

"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

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Akshay Vasu

"Your gift is what you were created to be."

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Akshay Vasu

"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."

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Akshay Vasu

"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"

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Akshay Vasu

"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."

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Akshay Vasu

"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."

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Akshay Vasu

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

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Akshay Vasu

"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."

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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
"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
"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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Katherine Dunham
"So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person."

Ability

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Katherine Dunham
"My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa."

Work

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Katherine Dunham
"We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit."

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Katherine Dunham
"The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion."

Education

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