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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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Anybody
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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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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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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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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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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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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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You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.
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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.
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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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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
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Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
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