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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Portland
Indiana
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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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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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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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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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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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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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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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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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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
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