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I do everything I know how in a dance.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Dancing
Dance
Everything

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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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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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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
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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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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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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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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.
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There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
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I understand things that are American, for better or worse.
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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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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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Concentrate: you can't have it all.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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