413 Quotes by Twyla Tharp

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.

It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can.

Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it. Without the time and effort invested in getting ready to create, you can be hit by a thunderbolt and it'll just leave you stunned.

I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.

Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.