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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
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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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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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Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
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You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.
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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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The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.
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When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
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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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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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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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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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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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To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.
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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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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
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No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
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I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?
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