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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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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.
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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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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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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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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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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 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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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important 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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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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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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You double your intensity with skill.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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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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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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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'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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