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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
Defiance
Creativity
Art
Writing

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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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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
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I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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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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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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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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when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.
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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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I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
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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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