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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I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.
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Aim higher. Stay focused.
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Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.
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Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.
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I was trying to hold up a mirror to this country, to reflect the past years or so, and the varying degrees in which we've been affected by the war(s) that doesn't seem to end. And we've all been affected somehow, even if we have no connection to the military, even if we don't know anyone who's killed or been killed. No one escapes something so large.
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I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.
