Twyla Tharp Quotes
I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
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That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.
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To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.
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For the U.S., a nation that boasts of being the land of the free, it does not live up to its ideal.
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No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.
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I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.
