Twyla Tharp Quotes
Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.Twyla Tharp
Quotes to Explore
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
Zach Galifianakis -
There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
R. Kelly -
I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
Joanne Rowling -
I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
Kat Dennings -
Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
Tamra Davis -
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
J. R. Smith -
I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
Wanda Sykes -
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler -
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
Quentin Tarantino -
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
Ted Williams -
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
Jacob Epstein
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani -
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Wendell Berry -
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
Baz Luhrmann -
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
Adam Hochschild -
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
Dan Fogelberg -
I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
Kate Baldwin
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
Charles de Gaulle -
In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.
Willa Cather -
I traveled to Ireland to research 'Sandcastles,' to visit the coastline where my ancestors looked toward America, the tiny town they once loved so much, and the docks from which they sailed toward their dreams of building a better life for their family. The answers I found on that journey are woven through the novel.
Luanne Rice -
When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
Al Pacino -
Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.
Twyla Tharp