Twyla Tharp Quotes
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
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I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.
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The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
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When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.
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Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?
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I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.
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If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.
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As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
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You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself.
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We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.
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…the Malay word chium meant to plough the beloved’s face with one’s nose
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Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for 'vulgarity'; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful. Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful.
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All is race, there is no other truth.
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The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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I definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.'
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So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
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If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?
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Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.
