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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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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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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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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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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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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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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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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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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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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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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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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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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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