Quotes of Katherine Dunham - somelinesforyou

“ Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out. ”

- Katherine Dunham

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

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Katherine Dunham

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

- Katherine Dunham

“ For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it. ”

- 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. ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. ”

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. ”

- Katherine Dunham

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

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”

- Katherine Dunham

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

- Katherine Dunham

“ If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. ”

- 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. ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about. ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ I have actually five honorary degrees. ”

- 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. ”

- Katherine Dunham

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

- Katherine Dunham

“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”

- 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. ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ I have actually five honorary degrees. ”

- Katherine Dunham
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