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I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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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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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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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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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
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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'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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Concentrate: you can't have it all.
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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
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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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There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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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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Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
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Art is an investigation.
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