Twyla Tharp Quotes
I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
Quotes to Explore
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.
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I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.
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My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.
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Email is the greatest thing.
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It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
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I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.
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I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.
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All my stories take place on the West Coast - not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.
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Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.
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And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
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I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months.
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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
