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Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Secret
Bounty
Curse
Blessing
Limits

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This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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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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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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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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Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.
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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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Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.
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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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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 can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
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