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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
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Portland
Indiana
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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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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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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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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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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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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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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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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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