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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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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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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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The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.
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Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.
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I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.
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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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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've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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I understand things that are American, for better or worse.
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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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