Twyla Tharp Quotes
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.
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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.
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While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
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We have new ways to be born, humane and symbolic ways to die, different ways to be rich... new ways to be human and to discover what we are to each other.
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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
