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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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" 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. "

Twyla Tharp

Keep Moving

You

Fight

" In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things. "

" In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry. "

Twyla Tharp

Over

Power

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything. "

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

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

" I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot. "

Twyla Tharp

Best

History

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

" Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart. "

" Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. "

" Critics should be looked at simply as commentators. "

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful. "

Twyla Tharp

Kid

Just

" 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. "

" Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut. "

" Art is an investigation. "

Twyla Tharp

Investigation

Art

" There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good. "

Twyla Tharp

Good

Anything

" 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. "

" 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

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical. "

" Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business. "