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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Gods
Destroy
Resources
Wish
Give
Giving
Prelude
Neurosis
Unlimited

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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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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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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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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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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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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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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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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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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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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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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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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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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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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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