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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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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
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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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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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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 don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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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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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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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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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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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'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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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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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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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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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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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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