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" I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines. "
Twyla Tharp
Just
Go
Fingers
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" Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere. "
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" 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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" The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing. "
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" I see dance as glue for a community. "
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" 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. "
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" Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive. "
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" It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can. "
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" 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. "
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" In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. "
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" When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. "
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Culture
" I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business. "
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" If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph. "
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" I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work. "
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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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" A commission is an invitation to fall in love. "
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" There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good. "
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" There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do. "
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" Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. "
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" I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys. "
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" Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. "
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" To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do. "
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" A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. "
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People
Think
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" Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests. "
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" '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. "
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" Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound. "
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" When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way. "
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" You either entertain an audience or you don't. "
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" I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place. "
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" In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything. "
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" When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?' "
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