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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Lying
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Action
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Power
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I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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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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I understand things that are American, for better or worse.
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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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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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Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.
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I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
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Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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I do everything I know how in a dance.
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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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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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