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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.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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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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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 work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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