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

Twyla Tharp

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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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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.
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It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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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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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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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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The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
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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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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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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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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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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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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
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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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To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.
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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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I do everything I know how in a dance.
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