Twyla Tharp Quotes
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.
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Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.
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I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'
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I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
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Israel is the vanguard of the free world against the Islamic terrorism of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran.
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The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.
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I will either be famous or infamous.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
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I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
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There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
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There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
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One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.
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The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.
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I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.
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It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
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And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.
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I was hit by a car when I was 13, and the rumour was immediately that I had been playing chicken with the car with my best friend Kenny in front of the Nutmeg Pantry, which was the only shop in Sharon. In fact, the guy who hit me was inebriated.
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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
