Twyla Tharp Quotes

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

Twyla Tharp

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Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

John McGahern

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I find these shows very touching sometimes.

Robert Stack

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Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

Robert Lanza

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I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.

Rudolf Bing

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I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

Michelle Gomez

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Any Olympic sport is great to watch.

Michael Phelps

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Trump has a bigger, longer-term vision for this country than just sitting as a president for four years. He really does. And that's what I was impressed by.

Michael T. Flynn

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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Lord Byron

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Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

Julia Barr

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I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.

Clint Eastwood

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I was 17 when my body started changing, and I worried about what I did wrong. I went through a period where I didn't eat at all. I also had someone who was encouraging me to take diet pills. I pushed myself to the extreme because I woke up one day and had hips - and a butt - and thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm getting fat!'

Shantel VanSanten

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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Norman Mailer

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