Twyla Tharp Quotes

My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.

Twyla Tharp

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• If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

  

  Ed Koch
  • You
  • Violence
  • Jail

• I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Technology
  • Problem

• If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Mind
  • Easy
  • Something

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Want
  • Film
  • Listen

• Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • War
  • Best
  • Revolution

• To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Smart
  • Crime
  • Looking

• Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • School
  • English
  • Inspiration

• Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Football
  • Activity

• I buy when other people are selling.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Business
  • Selling

• Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • People
  • You
  • Best

• Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Future
  • Lies
  • Independent

• I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Pretty
  • Team
  • Know

• Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Life
  • Going
  • Grid

• Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Cooking

• Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Good
  • Society
  • Good Times

• There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

  

  Charles Kuralt
  • People
  • Greed

• Aliens are definitely real.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Real

• If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Science
  • Authority
  • Judgement

• I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

  

  Ad-Rock The Beastie Boys
  • Attention
  • Idea
  • Rap

• Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Train

• My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.

  

  Twyla Tharp