My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks.” — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“When I walk into [the studio] I am alone, but I am alone with my body, ambition, ideas, passions, needs, memories, goals,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
