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Twyla Tharp

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

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

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"Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind."

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"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."

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"Dance with the waves of sea and sing with the sky,touch the sands with love and let your mind fly high."

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"I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together."

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"The real dance is a spontaneous body movement that in harmony with the beats of the music in your heart."

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"Dance as if you got lost in the mystery and beauty of life."

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"The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing."

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"In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff."

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"It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group."

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"The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance."

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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts."
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"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
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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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"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."
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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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