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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Existing
Judgment
Business

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In creative endeavors luck is a skill.
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When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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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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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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