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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Mind
World
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