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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've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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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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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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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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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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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 do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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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 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 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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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.
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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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