Twyla Tharp Quotes
I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Someone is out there looking to put you out of business. Someone is out there who thinks they have a better idea than you have. A better solution than you have. A better or more efficient product than you have.
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I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
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New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.
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Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.
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I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.
