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Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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I understand things that are American, for better or worse.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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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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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
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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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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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When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
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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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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.
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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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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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