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All Quotes by author - Twyla Tharp

" A commission is an invitation to fall in love. "

" A dancer's life is all about repetition. "

" After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. "

" A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. "

" 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. "

" Art is an investigation. "

" Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. "

" At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do. "

" Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. "

" Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is. "

" 'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles. "

" Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism. "

" Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. "

" Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way. "

" Critics should be looked at simply as commentators. "

" Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that. "

" Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement. "

" Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. "

" Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals. "

" Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it. "

" Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me. "

" Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck. "

" Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere. "

" I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it. "

" I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated. "

" I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it! "

" I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do. "

" I do at least 75 push-ups a day. "

" I do not watch television, never have. "

" I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language. "

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