Twyla Tharp Quotes

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

Twyla Tharp

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• I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Looking

• I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Think
  • Body

• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • Career
  • House

• I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Dance
  • Three
  • Ballet

• I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Single
  • Space
  • Feelings

• There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • New

• I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Community
  • Myself
  • Ballet

• I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Jazz
  • Ballet
  • Once

• Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Community
  • City
  • Fighting

• I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Good
  • Running
  • Style

• I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Way
  • Body

• I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Church
  • Rock
  • Dance

• I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Baseball
  • Ballet

• I was skiing in Deer Valley and there's no people of color up there, and I'm up there, skiing, trying to fit in like an asshole, and I have an instructor and he goes, 'Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but you have a tendency to bow into your skis.' Fuck you! And then I fell.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

  

  Deborah Bull
  • Career
  • Ballet

• I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then sort of gravitated toward musical theater, so any time I got asked to sing or dance, it was a joy for me.

  

  Lesley Ann Warren
  • Time
  • Joy
  • Dance

• Russian culture is multifaceted and diverse. So if you want to understand, to feel Russia, then of course you need to read books, Tolstoy and Chekhov and Gogol and others. Listen to music. Tchaikovsky. Watch our classical ballet. But the most important thing is that you need to talk with people.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Important
  • Book

• The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Life
  • Lies

• Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.

  

  David Hewson

• Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.

  

  Preet Bharara
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Ballet