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To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Enhance
Ambiguity
Tolerance
Luck
Embrace

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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.
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