Twyla Tharp Quotes
30 Twyla Tharp quotes:
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
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"In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry."
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"It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience."
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"It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer."
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"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."
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"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."
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"The formal education that I received made little sense to me."
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"The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally."
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"The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts."
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"The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing."
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"A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things."
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"Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that."
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"I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies."
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"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."
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"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."
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"I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night."
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"I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching."
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"I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving."
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"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything."
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"With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances."
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