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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. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#best #i #i think #luxury #privileged

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. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#dominant #dominant force #education #everything #exclusivity

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#came #college #college degree #county #degree

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#composers #dance #ephemeral #kind #painters

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

— Twyla Tharp

#business #change #fear #i #makes

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#background #became #by the time #compositional #doing

What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#because #bodies #her #how #i

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. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#been #better #children #completed #dances

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself. ↗

— Denis Thatcher

#bloody #falklands #fool #i #make

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

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