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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
Important
Time
Conserving
Finite
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Energy

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When creativity has become your habit when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal the achievement of mastery.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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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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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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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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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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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 that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.
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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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Concentrate: you can't have it all.
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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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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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Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
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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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