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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Portland
Indiana
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I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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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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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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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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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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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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Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.
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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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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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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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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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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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