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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
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When creativity has become your habit when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal the achievement of mastery.
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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
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Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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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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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
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Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I’ve found the answer in the simple file box.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
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I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.
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Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.
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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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