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It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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