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.
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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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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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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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All portions of All That Is are constantly changing, enfolding, and unfolding. All That Is, seeking to know Itself, constantly creates new versions of Itself. For this seeking Itself is a creative activity and the core of all action.
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It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.
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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.
