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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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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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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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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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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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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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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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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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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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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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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.
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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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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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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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