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Twyla Tharp
Dancer and Choreographer
Twyla Tharp: It depends on how you define vision. If it's a sense of the way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. It was from the time I was a very small child, when I puttered around the house. I was four or five years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself. If you're speaking of professionally, it was not until I was after college, until I had graduated. So, it was much, much later that I made a professional commitment to it because quite frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer because it's very difficult to earn a living; because there's very little continuity, and because just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. And consequently, it seemed like perhaps a not wise investment of a substantial portion of my life. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did the best, that I owed it to all that be to pursue it. That that was what I had to do, whether it meant I was going to be able to earn a living or not.
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Clyde Tombaugh
Discoverer of Planet Pluto
I have this feeling of wonder what it's like to kind of look there and just sweep around through the Milky Way and say, "Oh there's hundreds and hundreds of stars and star clusters." It gives me a feeling of great elation. It's a therapy for me, just idle, plowing through the sky. It's fun. I wonder about all the wonderful things that must be going on there that we don't see, realizing there are thousands and thousands -- millions -- of alien civilizations out there, doing things, maybe something like we are. This is something you think about.
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