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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Mood
Discipline
Create

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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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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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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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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
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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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You double your intensity with skill.
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No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
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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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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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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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