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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
Ballet Dancer
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Portland
Indiana
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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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Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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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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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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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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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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Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.
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when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.
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I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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In creative endeavors luck is a skill.
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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