Twyla Tharp Quotes
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different.
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
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If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I've been pretty smart with my money. I'm playing because I want to play this game here - I want the opportunity.
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
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The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix.
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Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.
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Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.
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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.
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The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
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I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
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I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.
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My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.
