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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.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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Portland
Indiana
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I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.
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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 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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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
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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 had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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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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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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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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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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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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