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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. "

Twyla Tharp

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

" I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. "

" 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. "

" You either entertain an audience or you don't. "

" I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days. "

" The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body. "

" My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. "

" I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter. "

" The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece. "

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" I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time. "

" There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do. "

" In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. "

" I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury. "

" Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that will bring him to the past. His book is called 'In Search of Lost Time,' and he does it through the senses. He does it through smell. He does it through feeling. He does it through texture. It is all physically driven, that language. "

" What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went to college, and I'm accustomed to everybody can buy a ticket and everybody should be taken into account. "

" The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm, that could have worked better like this.' But as a person who needs to sell tickets to do the next work, one needs to analyze how it does or does not hit its mark. "

" I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style. "

" I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none of this professional garbage going on about how much can you get for this or that or the other, or any of the kinds of things that insecurity can sometimes promote. Sometimes it's for the wrong reasons.' "

" 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. "

" We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself. "

" The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. "

" This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. "