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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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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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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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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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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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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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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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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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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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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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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'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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