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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
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Portland
Indiana
Timing
Bank
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Second
Robbery
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
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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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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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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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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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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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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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Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.
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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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The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.
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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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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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