Twyla Tharp Quotes & Sayings (Page 12)
Twyla Tharp quotes and sayings page 12 (83 year old dancer). Here's quote # 111 through 120 out of the 138 we have for her.
“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.”
“Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.”
“I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.”
“I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.”
“I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.”
“If a thing moves, it lives.”
“In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.”
“It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can.”
“The formal education that I received made little sense to me.”
“I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.”
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