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Perfect practice makes perfect.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Practice
Perfect
Makes

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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
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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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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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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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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've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
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Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.
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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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