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• I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Obsessed

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• With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

  Jamie Foxx

  Gymnastics, Django Unchained, Routine

  "Jamie Foxx Talks PROJECT IMAGINAT10N, Playing the President in WHITE HOUSE DOWN, Tarantino’s DJANGO UNCHAINED and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2012.

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• I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

  Vera Farmiga

  Years, Age, I Can

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• If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

  Jerry Falwell

  Two, Choices, Ifs

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• A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

  Max Eastman

  Land, Play, Goal

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• I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

  Jackie Chan

  Crazy, Perfect, Together

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• I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

  Philip Johnson

  Mold, Riches, Tradition

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• When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

  Alicia Keys

  Song, Writing, Play

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• The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Skulls, Brain, Tissues

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• I like working together with different producers. Of course the process is different, producing a new track is like creating something all new, while reworking an already existing track is more like giving your own twist to the record.

  Martin Garrix

  Creating, Giving, Track

  Source: www.independentphilly.com

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• No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Writing, Dark, Hair

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• Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Voice, Promise

  J.R.R. Tolkien (1973). “The Lord of the Rings part two the Two Towers”

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• There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees.

  William Carlos Williams

  Son, Clouds, Wind

  William Carlos Williams, “Kora In Hell: Improvisations XXVII”

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• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts. The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion the law as he sees fit.

  Earl Warren

  Fashion, Law, Long

  Speaking to William O. Douglas on the afternoon of the day he died, July 09, 1974. "The Court Years, 1939-1975 : The Autobiography of William O. Douglas" by William O. Douglas, p. 514, 1980.

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• I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

  Vera Wang

  Artist, Past, Giving

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• Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much.

  Richard Simmons

  Legs, Too Much, Way

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Past, Negative

  "Making the Spirits Dance". nymag.com. June 5, 2011.

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• You don't have to twist my arm to work.

  Henry Rollins

  Arms

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• I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

  John Mayer

  Stupid, Silly, Curves

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• If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

  Dean Koontz

  Peculiar, Ifs

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• I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Guy, Type, My Own

  "Talking with Our Mouths Full: Carmelo Anthony". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 11, 2011.

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• It is odd, the twists that life will sometimes take. The ewe that you think will give birth with ease dies bringing forth a two-headed lamb. Or the ski trail that you have been told is treacherous, you navigate easily.

  Edith Pattou

  Thinking, Two, Giving

  Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.79, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Papa's in a bad way, Locke. I wanted to see you before you saw him - he has some...things he wishes to discuss with you. I want you to know that whatever he asks, I don't want you...for my sake...well, please, just agree. Please him, do you understand?" "No garrista who loves life has ever tried to do otherwise. You think I'm inclined to walk in on a day like today and deliberately twist his breeches? If your father says 'bark like a dog' I say 'What breed, Your Honour?

  Scott Lynch

  Dog, Father, Love Life

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