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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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Akshay Vasu

"Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them."

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Akshay Vasu

"We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel."

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Akshay Vasu

"If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers."

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Akshay Vasu

"But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned."

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Akshay Vasu

"I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger."

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Akshay Vasu

"Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences."

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Akshay Vasu

"I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again."

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Akshay Vasu

"There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop."

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Akshay Vasu

"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."

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Akshay Vasu

"I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange."

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Twyla Tharp
"The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts."

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"It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer."

College

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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 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."

Audience

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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."

Experience

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Twyla Tharp
"The formal education that I received made little sense to me."

Education

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Twyla Tharp
"Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them."

Soul

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"I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies."

Power

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"I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night."

People

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Twyla Tharp
"The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing."

Dance

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