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Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks, in fact are.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Writer
Portland
Indiana
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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
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This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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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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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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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
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Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.
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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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I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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Art is an investigation.
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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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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
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Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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