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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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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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