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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Combine
Idea
Two
Littles
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Little
Really
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I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.
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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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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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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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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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Concentrate: you can't have it all.
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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
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