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Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Portland
Indiana
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
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But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.
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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
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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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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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