Twyla Tharp Quotes

In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.

Twyla Tharp

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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.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • You

• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Back

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • May
  • Together

• 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?'

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • God
  • Light

• 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.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • School
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mind
  • Reading
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • World
  • Career

• With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.

  

  Larry King
  • Think
  • You
  • Internet

• You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Hunger
  • Idiot

• This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

  

  Gary Hart
  • You
  • Leave
  • San Francisco

• Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Woman
  • Child
  • Treat

• The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Best
  • Spirit

• I dance. I don't really do anything else.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Anything
  • Else

• 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?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Hand
  • Lies

• 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

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Decision
  • Vision

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Morning

• You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is their favorite movie is that 'Drive' is a 90-minute trip into what a lot of seventies filmmaking was. It encapsulates the best of a certain kind of style, and a style that a lot of people haven't seen before, with the music and the way it's edited.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People
  • Music
  • Movie

• He was a muted egomaniac—he tried to keep his grandiosity under cover—but an egomaniac nonetheless.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Egomaniac
  • Grandiosity

• My life was as crammed with strenuous work and highly interesting experiences alike.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Life
  • Work
  • Experiences

• In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • World
  • Music
  • Words

• That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Magic

• In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Magic