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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
Everybody
Easy
Never
Life
Particularly
Dance

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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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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
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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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Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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