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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."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."

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Amber Hurdle

"I must get my soul back from you, I am killing my flesh without it."

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Amber Hurdle

"But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again."

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Amber Hurdle

"The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high."

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Amber Hurdle

"Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?"

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Amber Hurdle

"He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven."

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Amber Hurdle

"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."

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Amber Hurdle

"The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind."

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Twyla Tharp
"I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot."

History

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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."

Power

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Twyla Tharp
"I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury."

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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
"Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that."

Life

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

Dance

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"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."

Woman

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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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Twyla Tharp
"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."

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Twyla Tharp
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

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