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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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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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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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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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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.
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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
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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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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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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 don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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