Twyla Tharp Quotes
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
Quotes to Explore
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
