Twyla Tharp Quotes
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.
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Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.
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Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'
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People in Toronto love to watch fights.
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I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.
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Ah is the shortest of human cries, Oh the longest. Man is born in an Ah and dies in an Oh, for birth is immediate and death is like an airplane taking off.
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In a political situation where tyranny reigns and rebellion is not tolerated, few men and women will have the luxury of going beyond the stance of the rebel.
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Cold, delicately as the dark snow,A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;Two eyes serve a movement, that nowAnd again now, and now, and nowSets neat prints into the snow.
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It began to worry me that I could never possibly settle in England now, not after Tokyo nude-shows and sliced green chillies, brown children sluicing at the road-pump, the air-conditioned hum in bedrooms big as ballrooms, negligible income-tax, curry tiffins, being the big man in the big car, the bars of all the airports of Africa and the East.
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Good Christian People, I have not come here to preach a sermon; I have come here to die.
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Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.
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As Michael Scheuer, who ran the C.I.A.'s bin Laden unit until 1999, has pointed out, if bin Laden believed in Christmas, the Iraq war would be his perfect present from Santa Claus. The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war in Afghanistan severely damaged bin Laden's organization.
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It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
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No one's comfortable with losing.
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I played a little bit of 'City of Heroes' - they have a really great character generation system. I was pretty impressed with that. I played 'World of Warcraft' with my kids. That's a lot of fun.
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All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.
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I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
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I do at least 75 push-ups a day.
