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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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Portland
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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 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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