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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Thinking
Conformity
Boxes
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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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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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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 don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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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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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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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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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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