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In the end all collaborations are love stories.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Collaborations
Collaboration
Ends
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Love

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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.
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I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.
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Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I’ve found the answer in the simple file box.
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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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I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.
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Our guys have a vision of something bigger.
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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.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
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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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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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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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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.
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My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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