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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
Twyla Tharp
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.
Twyla Tharp
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.
Twyla Tharp
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.
Twyla Tharp
I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
Twyla Tharp
dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
Twyla Tharp
I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
Twyla Tharp
Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
Twyla Tharp
Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
Twyla Tharp
I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
Twyla Tharp
In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
Twyla Tharp
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
Twyla Tharp
More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.
Twyla Tharp
I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
Twyla Tharp
I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp
Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
Twyla Tharp
Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
Twyla Tharp
A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
Twyla Tharp
The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
Twyla Tharp
