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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
Ballet Dancer
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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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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As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.
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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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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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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
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I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
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Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.
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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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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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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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