Twyla Tharp Quotes
Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon – which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.
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I find the ones that have the most emotional weight, the heaviest songs. For some reason, for me, they're usually the ones I write the quickest. I put more work into uplifting material, I think, sometimes.
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I believe that work is essential to human well-being.
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Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.
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Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.
