Twyla Tharp Quotes

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

Twyla Tharp

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• Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Oil
  • Fish

• Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Different
  • Real
  • Peace

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • May
  • Peace

• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Possible
  • Prefer
  • Blondes

• I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Discipline

• D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Life
  • Star

• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Ambition
  • Achievement

• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • War
  • Culture

• As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Time
  • Actor

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Tough
  • Islam
  • Original

• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Theatre
  • Now
  • Dinner

• It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Focus
  • Training
  • Fighter

• Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • World
  • Year
  • Grow

• I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Real
  • Team
  • Learning

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • People
  • Men
  • Trust

• It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Law

• I'd love to go out on a Saturday night with my friends and watch a movie, but that happens really like once a year or a couple of times.

  

  Lydia Ko
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Night

• I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Intelligent
  • Fairs

• If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Stop

• What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Dance
  • Courage