Twyla Tharp Quotes
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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I dance. I don't really do anything else.
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If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?
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This debate is coming down essentially to two visions - Mr. Harper's vision for Canada and my vision for Canada, and to a decision to be made by people disappointed by Mr. (Stephane) Dion
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I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it’s for a split second, at some point I’m being checked out.
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I love playing the bad girl.
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Stardom can be obtained only after surviving and giving good films for almost 20 years.
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If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.
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I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.
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I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic.
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In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.
