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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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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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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 do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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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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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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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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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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