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Twyla Tharp

"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."

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Donna Grant

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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Donna Grant

"The world system is employment."

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Donna Grant

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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Donna Grant

"Do not be weary to make money."

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Donna Grant

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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Donna Grant

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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Donna Grant

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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Donna Grant

"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

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Donna Grant

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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Donna Grant

"Do all the work you while you still have strength."

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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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Twyla Tharp
"The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally."

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

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

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Twyla Tharp
"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."

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