Twyla Tharp Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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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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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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I'm not any kind of social reformer.
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The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
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You can't do good if you don't feel good.
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There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.
