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

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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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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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
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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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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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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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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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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'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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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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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.
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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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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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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 began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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