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Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

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Twyla Tharp

I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process. . . (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.

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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

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I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

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No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

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