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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My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'
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Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.
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The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
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What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
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I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.
