Application Quote by Twyla Tharp

“I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.”

Twyla Tharp

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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

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This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

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I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

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I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

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

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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender…

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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.

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Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action.

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“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults…

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