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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
Transform
Dreams
Turn
Everybody
Turns
Dream
Anything
Upside

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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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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 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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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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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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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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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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There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.
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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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