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Twyla Tharp

"I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift."

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"I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift."

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"You must have a definite purpose of life and a deep desire to achieve it. Without purpose, life is boring."

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"The formal education that I received made little sense to me."
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"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."
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"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
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"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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"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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"My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment."
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"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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"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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"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything."
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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."
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