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I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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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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When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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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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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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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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To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.
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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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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
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When creativity has become your habit when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal the achievement of mastery.
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Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
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Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.
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Art is an investigation.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.
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The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.
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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
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