Twyla Tharp Quotes

Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.

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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.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • History
  • Simple

• Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Youth
  • Serenity
  • Smiling

• 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.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• 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.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • People
  • Pride
  • Leaving

• 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.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Time
  • Good
  • Parents

• 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?

  

  Jack Germond
  • World
  • Real
  • Pictures

• If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Same
  • Bigger
  • Skill

• In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • American
  • Air
  • Innocence

• 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.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Mother
  • Feel
  • Better

• 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.'

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Mother
  • Desire
  • Baby

• You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Action
  • Goals

• You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself.

  

  Vernon Howard

• 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.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Waves

• …the Malay word chium meant to plough the beloved’s face with one’s nose

  

  Anthony Burgess

• 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.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Education

• All is race, there is no other truth.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Truth

• No matter where you are, what point in your life you're at, it's not the end.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Life

• Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Night
  • Moon
  • Slender

• On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Work
  • Live
  • Words

• If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Painting

• But who is stronger than death?Me, evidently.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Death

• I missed the NFL by an inch. IRS problems... No money coming in, and not that many options left because I signed that stupid no-compete clause with WWE. I had no one to blame but myself.

  

  Brock Lesnar
  • Money
  • Stupid

• Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.

  

  Twyla Tharp