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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.
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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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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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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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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.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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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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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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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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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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Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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