Twyla Tharp Quotes

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.

I always had this thirst for excitement.

I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

I don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do.

I consider myself a fearless idiot.

None of my ambitions were serious as a girl. One week I wanted to be a lawyer, the next a binman.

I've gotten to jump into a lot of different things. And either being bold enough or dumb enough or naive enough to believe I could play them all, it's an exercise of self-delusion.

Most young people want to get out of the environment they grow up in, move on, and do something. The big question for everyone is what they want to do and how. It's something that most young people feel.

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

I don't think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a civil engineer, you could become a biologist, you could become a computer scientist - that was the point of it. I had no idea what I wanted to do. In my last two years of high school here happened to be these few scripts that I really responded to. Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing to admit. I don't know that I'd ever planned to be in this situation. I'm still just an idiot, really really stupid. It's not like I'm now a genius because this has happened. I just got hugely lucky.

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

Some people have more guts than brains.

Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.