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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.

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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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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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 don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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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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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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One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.
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You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
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My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
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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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I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
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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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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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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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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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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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