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Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Stepchild
Arts
Dance
Art

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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
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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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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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I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.
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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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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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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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Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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