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Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Change
Things
Life
Dead
Stop
Moving

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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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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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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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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale it's for engineers trying to solve a problem it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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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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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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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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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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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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Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.
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I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.
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