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Me Quotes by Twyla Tharp
- There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new,…
- I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the…
- I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
- The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
- 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…
- I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
- The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
- I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By…
- When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
- 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…
- Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.
- My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.
- My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.
- 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…
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- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
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- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
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