Twyla Tharp Quotes

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

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• I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Science
  • Question
  • Popular

• 'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Time
  • Age
  • Interesting

• There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Time
  • Lake
  • Improve

• A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Time
  • Space
  • Thought

• If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Language

• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Time
  • World
  • School

• I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Time
  • High

• I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Idea

• In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Time
  • Lose
  • Difficulties

• When I first joined the team, I was playing with the likes of Mia Hamm, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett - all those big-time players. It was very intimidating. I had some of these players' posters on my wall growing up, and now I was able to play with them.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Time
  • Family
  • Happy

• Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Game
  • Man

• I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Time
  • Live
  • Past

• I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Think

• I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Good
  • Teach
  • Teaching

• I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Business

• It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching the market.

  

  Mark Walport

• I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

  

  Twyla Tharp
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