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Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.
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REBA MCENTIRE When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know wh...
JAMES MCBRIDE I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Ca...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do...
VALERIE BERTINELLI I run and do a lot of push-ups and eat healthy.
JONAH HILL I've never enjoyed my running more. I also do 200 sit-ups a day, 60 push-ups, and a lot of stret...
ALBERTO SALAZAR I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG When I was a teenager, I did a lot of pull-ups and push-ups. Every night before bed, I'd do 150 ...
ALEX HONNOLD We do pride push-ups after every game.
BRIAN FITZGERALD Here is a creature with fins that can do push-ups.
NEIL SHUBIN Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't.
ASAFA POWELL Every night before bed, I drop down to the floor and do 20 sit-ups, 5 push-ups and stretching. No ma...
TAMARA TAYLOR Sit-ups and push-ups work without a gym.
JOHN VARVATOS Oh, man. In between dinners and going to school and just being around, I'd say at least 50 to 75 [qu...
BRODIE CROYLE You Can’t Hire Someone Else to Do Your Push-ups for You
JACK CANFIELD We do stretching, push-ups, pull-ups and all sorts of torture. You can't be in the group unless you ...
BEN MILLER I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER If I get any private time in my trailer, all of a sudden I'm doing sit-ups and push-ups.
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
JACK BLACK At least 75 percent of the people in our community who I see at the clinic have skin cancer.
GRACE MASSAH Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
PENN JILLETTE No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that ...
TWYLA THARP Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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TWYLA THARP Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
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TWYLA THARP My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.
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TWYLA THARP What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
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TWYLA THARP Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
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TWYLA THARP Art is running away without ever leaving home.
TWYLA THARP To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but ...
TWYLA THARP I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-mi...
TWYLA THARP This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.
TWYLA THARP I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
TWYLA THARP I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done dem...
TWYLA THARP Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed...
TWYLA THARP My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the...
TWYLA THARP My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: ...
TWYLA THARP My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old un...
TWYLA THARP I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four feature...
TWYLA THARP Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
TWYLA THARP To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight agains...
TWYLA THARP I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That ...
TWYLA THARP After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patt...
TWYLA THARP I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
TWYLA THARP You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do so...
TWYLA THARP The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
TWYLA THARP I see dance as glue for a community.
TWYLA THARP I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once...
TWYLA THARP A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that ...
TWYLA THARP My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a ...
TWYLA THARP Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the...
TWYLA THARP Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but...
TWYLA THARP 'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be...
TWYLA THARP Creativity is an act of defiance.
TWYLA THARP When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not l...
TWYLA THARP I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my...
TWYLA THARP Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for...
TWYLA THARP Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those acti...
TWYLA THARP It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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TWYLA THARP Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways...
TWYLA THARP Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, t...
TWYLA THARP Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that wil...
TWYLA THARP I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, an...
TWYLA THARP What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to ...
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TWYLA THARP In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male danc...
TWYLA THARP The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball...
TWYLA THARP I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing less...
TWYLA THARP I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
TWYLA THARP At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia G...
TWYLA THARP There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly g...
TWYLA THARP I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and s...
TWYLA THARP I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously,...
TWYLA THARP People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got u...
TWYLA THARP In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we c...
TWYLA THARP I'm expecting I'll have at least 75 guys selling. I probably got 40 phone calls (Wednesday) about th...
BUTCH BEHN I like that I've been able to maintain a good stomach and chest. Push-ups and sit-ups are my go-...
GIANCARLO STANTON I've done my share of push-ups.
BRIAN ESIP The entire day is all-inclusive and I think its great value at $75.
BEN RYAN We'll still be out-weighed 75 pounds a man, (but) at the very least we have a quick offensive line.
MARK NEWTON In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I'm just trying to stay ...
NORMAN REEDUS Push-ups are seriously the best way to tone your arms - and they tone your abs at the same time! I l...
CASSIE SCERBO Always do at least one good deed a day for someone other then yourself.
KYO I was in that shower for seven days-70 set-ups. At least Hitchcock made sure that the water was warm...
JANET LEIGH I like to do at least 15 minutes of cardio every day if I can fit it in.
BELLA HADID Here is a creature with fins that can do push-ups. This is clearly an animal that is able to support...
NEIL SHUBIN I try to wear $1 million a day. At least.
BIRDMAN From what I gather, our growers lost at least 75 to 80 percent of all the corn that was above the gr...
ANN HOLT I warm up. I do about 50 push-ups with my trainer and my security just to get pumped up before a sho...
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