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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Something
Badly
Humor
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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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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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.
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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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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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