Quotes by Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp

A dancer’s life is all about repetition.

Boiled Eggs

Dancer

Life Is

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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

Age

Decision

Parent

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After so many years, I’ve learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That’s why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. The most productive ones get started early in the morning, when the world is quiet, the phones aren’t ringing, and their minds are rested, alert, and not yet polluted by other people’s words.

Jobs

Morning

Phones

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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.

Comedy

Emotion

Soul

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Art is an investigation.

Art

Art Is

Investigation

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Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Art

Home

Running

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As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that’s a lie. I’ve definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.

Commitment

Lying

People

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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

Boxes

Conformity

Thinking

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But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it’s certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn’t working

Commitment

Saws

Sticks

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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.

Art

Practice

Skills

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