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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Never
Life
Particularly
Dance
Everybody
Easy

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Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.
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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather than the beneficiary. I am sharing my art with others, lending my craft to theirs, interest-free with no IOU.
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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
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You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.
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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.
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There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale it's for engineers trying to solve a problem it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...
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Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
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Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
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