Twyla Tharp Quotes
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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Being broke is a joke, I never found it funny / That's why I count my blessings / As much as I count my money...
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I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.
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You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
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Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
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Art is an investigation.
