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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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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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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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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.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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