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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
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Indiana
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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Our guys have a vision of something bigger.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.
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This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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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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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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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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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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Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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