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Creativity is an act of defiance.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Writing
Defiance
Creativity
Art

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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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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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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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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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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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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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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've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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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 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.
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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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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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