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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
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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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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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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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.
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There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.
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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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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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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.
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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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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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