Twyla Tharp Quotes
My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'
