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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
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The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.
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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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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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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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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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