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" 'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people. "

Twyla Tharp

Creative

Habit

Alone

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Twyla Tharp

Thoughts

Film

" To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving. "

" 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. "

" Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has. "

" I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. "

" Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult. "

Twyla Tharp

Way

Difficult

" It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can. "

" When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism. "

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

" When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.' "

" 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?' "

" I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass. "

" Critics should be looked at simply as commentators. "

" My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer. "

Twyla Tharp

Makes

My Own

" 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. "

" I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This is what I understand about dance. And this is an important thing. We need this. Our culture needs it. "

" I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't. "

" If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph. "

" 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. "

" I realize that dancers have worked long and hard for standards. However, on occasion, I think that it's good to examine one's heart and ask why are we dancing. "

" It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. "

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

" There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism. "

" I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important 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. "

" 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

Fingers

" 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. "

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

" I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy. "

" In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them. "