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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

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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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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 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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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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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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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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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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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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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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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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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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