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She might be the only girl I've ever met who still hasn't learned to sacrifice bodily comfort for fashion's sake.
— Tim Tharp
Art is an investigation.
— Twyla Tharp
Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
— Twyla Tharp
We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.
— Twyla Tharp
A dancer's life is all about repetition.
— Twyla Tharp
It's fine to live in the now. but the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. i'm going to start making them count.
— Tim Tharp
Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.
— Twyla Tharp
Our guys have a vision of something bigger.
— Twyla Tharp
You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
— Twyla Tharp
I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
— Twyla Tharp
Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
— Twyla Tharp
Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
— Twyla Tharp
That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
— Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.
— Robert Gottlieb
Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.
— Twyla Tharp
I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
— Twyla Tharp
I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.
— Twyla Tharp
They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.
— Tim Tharp
I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
— Twyla Tharp
I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ... It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
— Twyla Tharp
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
— Twyla Tharp
Just wait. Someone's going to come along, someone you never expected, someone who needs you because you're you.
— Tim Tharp
Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
— Twyla Tharp
That's all right,' she says, and I have to wonder how many times she's said that to the people in her life who screwed her over somehow
— Tim Tharp
There's no room inside for feeling any worse
— Tim Tharp
Here in the realm of books she's self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn't have anywhere else.
— Tim Tharp
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
— Twyla Tharp
I want to swear to the king of the king of the kings it's enough. But this afternoon the magic has all run out.
— Tim Tharp
She's drenched and bedraggled, but I've never loved anyone as much as I love her right now. That's how I know I'll have to give her up.
— Tim Tharp
In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
— Twyla Tharp
You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.
— Twyla Tharp
When you're with a girl, it's always best to act like you're an old hand at everything - not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe.
— Tim Tharp
Life is about moving, it's about change. And when things stop doing that they're dead.
— Twyla Tharp
We're toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody's ever been young like we are right at this moment.
— Tim Tharp
The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.
— Twyla Tharp
My job is okay. You know what an okay job is, don't you? It's a job you only hate some of the time instead of all of the time
— Tim Tharp
It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.
— Tim Tharp
Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition?
— Robert Gottlieb
I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass.
— Twyla Tharp
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.
— Twyla Tharp
If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
— Twyla Tharp
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
— Twyla Tharp
This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.
— Twyla Tharp
Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?
— Twyla Tharp
You either entertain an audience or you don't.
— Twyla Tharp
Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.
— Tim Tharp
See, I agree with what Cassidy says - once you have sex you'll always be sewn together with an astral thread.
— Tim Tharp
What else am I going to do, let the girl sit there on a railing in the moonlight thinking she's damned to go dudeless for the rest of her life?
— Tim Tharp
Art is running away without ever leaving home.
— Twyla Tharp
A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
— 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.
— Twyla Tharp
Just remember this- weird's good. Embrace the weird, dude. Enjoy it because it's never going away.
— Tim Tharp
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
— Twyla Tharp
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas ... when you actually do something physical.
— Twyla Tharp
We all want something that sticks
— Tim Tharp
There's nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks.
— Twyla Tharp
We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
— Twyla Tharp
What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.
— Twyla Tharp
Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
— Twyla Tharp
I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
— Twyla Tharp
You just go around acting like you're saving other people so you don't have to deal with your own problems.
— Tim Tharp
To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.
— Tim Tharp
Too much planning implies you've got it all under control. That's boring, unrealistic, and dangerous.
— Twyla Tharp
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
— Twyla Tharp
You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
— Twyla Tharp
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
— Twyla Tharp
The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
— Twyla Tharp
When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
— Twyla Tharp
I do everything I know how in a dance.
— Twyla Tharp