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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Conserving
Finite
Resources
Energy
Important
Time

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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 you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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I understand things that are American, for better or worse.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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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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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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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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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.
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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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In creative endeavors luck is a skill.
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The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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