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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
Bounty
Curse
Blessing
Limits
Secret

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I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.
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I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
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Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
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Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.
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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.
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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
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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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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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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 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 was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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