"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
-Twyla Tharp
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"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."
-Twyla Tharp
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"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."
-Twyla Tharp
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"In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry."
-Twyla Tharp
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"I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot."
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"The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts."
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"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
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"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
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"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
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"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
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