Twyla Tharp Quotes
If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.
Twyla Tharp
Quotes to Explore
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
Walter Kirn
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
Fay Wray
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
Damon Lindelof
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
Victor Ponta
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
Oskar Schindler
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David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect.
Laura Dern
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
Manu Bennett
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
E. L. James
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
Carl Sandburg
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
Karl Urban
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
Faran Tahir
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
Hannah Arendt
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I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.
Ed Harris
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Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.
Carl Honore
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Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?
Mary J. Blige
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
Edmund White
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They want me to immolate myself, and I sincerely believe that for some of them, when they see bad news from Iraq, the reaction is simply 'This will make Hitchens look bad!' I've been trying to avoid solipsism, but I've come to believe there are such people.
Christopher Hitchens
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Blind eyes cannot read.
Peter Greenaway
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I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
Ben Lovett
Mumford & Sons
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If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.
Twyla Tharp
