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Twyla Tharp Quotes

My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dancer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 1, 1941

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Me My Own Abstract Own Idea Makes

Anthony and I are putting together a company where we won't lose our jobs based on quarterly earnings and can afford to play a longer game. That short game is what creates a glut of mediocrity in the market because people are desperate for hits, and it puts so much pressure on executives to deliver them. We will take that pressure off the artists.

Together People Game Pressure Short

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

Success Music Heart Think Know Will

I have no interest in jumping out of an airplane or any of the things people do for thrills, to push their limits and all that. To me, that seems foolish, and there's no point.

Anderson Cooper

People Me Airplane Limits Push Out

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

War America Doing Result Back Been

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

John Polkinghorne

Respect Great World View Him Made

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

Great Small Things Small Way Kingdom

Those big matches, when you go through so much, are the best thing. Those matches are why you play tennis.

Best You Play Go Why Tennis

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Change Water Treat Wine Meet Like

I just like really simple things. If I had been on tour for a while and I got to come back and take my girlfriend Eleanor on a date, we would go to the cinema and then out for dinner.

Louis Tomlinson

Simple Dinner Simple Things Cinema

What was I like in 1966? I was 19 years old, very confident, and life was a big adventure.

Life Adventure Confident Old Big

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

Time Myself Makeup Saying Feel Try

I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation - that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind.

Life Change Best Imagination Mind

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