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When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Question
Ability
Everything
Ruts
Except

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