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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
Luck
Embrace
Enhance
Ambiguity
Tolerance

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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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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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There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?
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One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.
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I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion
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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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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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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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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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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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