Deborah Jowitt famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.
-- Deborah Jowitt -
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.
-- Deborah Jowitt
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.
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Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.
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Immigration reform is important in our country. We have a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely upon workers and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping? We don't need to put those employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers.
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In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.
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The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.
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It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.
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