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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
Learn
Better
Something
Badly
Humor

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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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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.
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Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.
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Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.
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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
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The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
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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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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
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Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.
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I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
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Our guys have a vision of something bigger.
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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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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I’ve found the answer in the simple file box.
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