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In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Dream
Anything
Upside
Transform
Dreams
Turn
Everybody
Turns

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Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
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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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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
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Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.
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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.
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You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
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When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
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Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.
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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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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 was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
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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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The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
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When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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