Twyla Tharp Quotes

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

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• I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Good
  • Daily

• They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

  

  Jack Cade
  • May
  • True
  • Pleasure

• It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • May
  • Truth
  • Easy

• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Beginning

• I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Years
  • Vanity

• If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Up
  • Man
  • Me

• Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Real
  • Passion
  • Universe

• It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Men
  • Song
  • Me

• I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Different
  • Play
  • Ready

• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Reality
  • Best
  • Performance

• After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • Party
  • Purpose

• Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Kids
  • True
  • Evidence

• I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Know
  • Really
  • How

• I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Food
  • Mood
  • Meat

• Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Business

• Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Brain

• We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Dream
  • Feelings
  • Revolutionary

• If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

  

  John Hope
  • Money
  • American
  • Education

• We have our religious traditions coming from many thousands of years, and I think to myself, well, you know, if Moses had come down with tablets from the mountain that said, 'And guess what? There are protons and neutrons, and they are made out of quarks,' people wouldn't have understood what he said. So he didn't.

  

  John C. Mather
  • People
  • Religious
  • Mountain

• I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

  

  George Inness
  • Nature
  • Artist
  • Spiritual

• I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

  

  Twyla Tharp