Creativity is an act of defiance. - Twyla Tharp

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Schedules are impossible to me. I am excited to be on tour, but there are instances when I wish that I wasn't managed. The shows are fun, but six hour drives burn me out.

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is an act of defiance.

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