A Quote by Twyla Tharp

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

Twyla Tharp

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Dancer Difficult Justify Profession Very

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Twyla Tharp
American - Dancer
Born: July 1, 1941

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

Twyla Tharp

I work as a dancer, but I also work as a choreographer with couples that have a lot of tension between them, and as dancer and as a choreographer, being in this situation is very difficult. You see the energy doesn't flow, and it's very tense.

Blanca Li

You have to have tunnel vision as a dancer to get to where you're going. But once you get there, you have to save yourself by spreading your horizons. It's the paradox of this profession. The very thing that makes you very good will destroy you.

Ann Reinking

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

Bebe Neuwirth

My mother was a dancer when she was a kid and I gather she was very good, but was never allowed to go into the profession.

Denis Lawson

Separating your profession from friendship is very difficult.

Lyoto Machida

I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography side of things. You've just got to be a different person to be a professional fighter. I train with professional fighters, so I know what it takes. It's a very difficult profession, probably harder then the acting profession.

Scott Adkins

If I have any strength as a dancer, I got it all from Nijinska. Her barre was tough, and there were very difficult combinations.

Cyd Charisse

Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.