Twyla Tharp Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
This town was built on nepotism.
-
Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
-
I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
-
I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
-
By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
-
I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.
-
I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
-
'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.
-
I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
-
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
-
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
-
What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
-
If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
-
I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.
-
The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
-
Aretha Franklin does not like me.
-
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.
-
Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.
-
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
-
What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
-
Our policy is not built on envy or hatred, but on liberty for the individual man or woman.
-
One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.
-
Critics should be looked at simply as commentators.
