Twyla Tharp Quotes

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

Twyla Tharp

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I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn't have had any friends in any environment other than performing.

Jodie Whittaker

FriendsEnvironmentKindOfficeBeen

Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

MC Hammer

BusinessPerceptionMysteryYouGet

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

John Lasseter

ChildrenGreatDriveStoryYouBad

It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

Michael Chang

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A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Sol LeWitt

ArtManMindBlindMakeSome

I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

Steven Wright

FearMyselfMeConflictConquerShy

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

Siobhan Fahey

SongYouBecomeRageViolentLot

To me, the Internet is a big scam.

Ry Cooder

MeInternetBigScam

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

Louise Penny

GoodCharacterHopeGreatPeopleMe

I loved old movies. And I like imitating people.

Julia Garner

PeopleLovedMoviesOldLike

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Doug Larson

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I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

David Wenham

MemoryNever ForgetEarthForgetNow

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