Twyla Tharp Quotes
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.
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I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.
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I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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I always feel that if you're going to cover a song, you should make it your own and flip it on its head.
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Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.
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I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.
