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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.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.
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Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
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In creative endeavors luck is a skill.
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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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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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Concentrate: you can't have it all.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
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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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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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