"A lot of people insisted on a wall……" — Twyla Tharp
"A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things."
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180 Quotes by Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp has 180 quotes on this site.
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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't…
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell…
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The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy…
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No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection…
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The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And…
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Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw…
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There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of…
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are…
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Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize…
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More Ballet Quotes
This quote is filed under Ballet Quotes,
one of 467 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of…
— Fred Astaire
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
— George Balanchine
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
— George Balanchine
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No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love…
— Jeff Bridges
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You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
— Deborah Bull
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Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV…
— Meg Cabot
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
— Thomas Carlyle
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