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Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Reader
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.
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There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.
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Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.
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I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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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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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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Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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