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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
Ballet Dancer
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I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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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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Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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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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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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