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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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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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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.
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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 repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of 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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