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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.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Portland
Indiana
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What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.
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It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.
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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 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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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
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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.
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The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.
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Our guys have a vision of something bigger.
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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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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.
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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
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Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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