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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Portland
Indiana
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Women
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Tolstoy
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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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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