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Twyla Tharp Quotes

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.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dancer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 1, 1941

Topics

Dance People Me Think Look Want

Yoga really destresses me.

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

Work Great Art Past New York Place

I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.

Good Enough Boy Lucky Gate Out

I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.

Magic Acting Teachers Spontaneous

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

Life Work Home Live Head Some

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

People Privilege Telling Stories

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

Yourself Creative You Create Person

You know my wife, she's 6 ft 1 she can beat anyone up.

Wife You Know She Up Beat

I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Politics Cool World Think America

I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.

Me Building Farm Become Top Office

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

People World Society Die Stop Hours

There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.

Me Lawyers Gay Cliff Out Stuff

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