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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Imagine
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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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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
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I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...
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Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
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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 to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
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I do everything I know how in a dance.
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Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale it's for engineers trying to solve a problem it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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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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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
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