Twyla Tharp Quotes
I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
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We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
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All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.
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I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.
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I'm not Democrat or Republican: I Vote Entrepreneur.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.
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I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
