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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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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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Ideas
Commit
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.
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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
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Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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I understand things that are American, for better or worse.
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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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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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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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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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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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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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