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Katherine Dunham

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

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A.E. Samaan

"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."

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A.E. Samaan

"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."

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A.E. Samaan

"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."

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A.E. Samaan

"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"With my background, I came out of the theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."

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Katherine Dunham
"A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on."

Gardening

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Katherine Dunham
"I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman."

Talent

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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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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
"We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning."

Building

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Katherine Dunham
"Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town."

People

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

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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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