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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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Amber Hurdle

"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."

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Amber Hurdle

"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

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Amber Hurdle

"You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you."

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Amber Hurdle

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."

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"Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience."

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

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

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