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If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

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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Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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