Twyla Tharp
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If you don't work when you don't want to work, you're not going to be able to work when you do want to work.
What do you mean, like this?
I didn't mean that in that sense.
You know I didn't.
My mother was an extraordinary force in anybody's life.
She happened to be in mine.
I was trained as a very young child to practice.
Whether anything, everything had to be practiced and had to be scheduled to be practiced.
And time is limited and you don't waste it.
And you work very hard and you try to maximize that period of time because otherwise you're being wasteful.
And while I said I'm from San Bernardino, I am, but I'm not.
I am from the Midwest.
I was born in Indiana and left when I was eight.
But up until that point, I had the extraordinary good fortune of being on my grandparents' farm for long stretches of time without my parents.
And these farms were in Amish territory and the family's Quaker.