Twyla Tharp Quotes & Sayings (Page 13)

Twyla Tharp quotes and sayings page 13 (83 year old dancer). Here's quote # 121 through 130 out of the 138 we have for her.

“I do not watch television, never have.”

“I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.”

“I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.”

“I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.”

“I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.”

“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.”

“There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.”

“When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'”

“Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.”

“I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.”