Twyla Tharp Quotes
Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say.
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I'm never going to look like a Nordic model, so I play with what I've got. Instead of going gray, I dye my hair bright colors; I have bad vision, so I wear sparkly glasses. I embrace that I look like a crazy lady.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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I've been in the emergency room for food poisoning.
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A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.
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Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.
