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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
Easy
Never
Life
Particularly
Dance
Everybody

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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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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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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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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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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.
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I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
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Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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