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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

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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. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

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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. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

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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

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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. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

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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. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#dominant #dominant force #education #everything #exclusivity

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

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The formal education that I received made little sense to me. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

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

— Twyla Tharp

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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

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