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Twyla Tharp

"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter."

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"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter."

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Asa Don Brown

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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Asa Don Brown

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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Asa Don Brown

"The value of time is immeasurable."

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Asa Don Brown

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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Asa Don Brown

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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Asa Don Brown

"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."

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Asa Don Brown

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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Asa Don Brown

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

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Asa Don Brown

"Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today."

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Asa Don Brown

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

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Twyla Tharp
"In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them."

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Twyla Tharp
"With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances."

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Twyla Tharp
"I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't."

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Twyla Tharp
"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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Twyla Tharp
"I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving."

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

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Twyla Tharp
"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."

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Twyla Tharp
"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter."

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Twyla Tharp
"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."

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Twyla Tharp
"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 far apart."

Art

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