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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

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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Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.
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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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I understand things that are American, for better or worse.
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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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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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