Twyla Tharp Quotes
Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
Quotes to Explore
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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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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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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I love Neutrogena's Makeup Remover Cleansing Wipes. They get all my makeup off and are really moisturizing.
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When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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I'm a big believer that if you buy a comic, you ought to own it.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
