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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Badly
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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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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Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
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The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over 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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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
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It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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When creativity has become your habit when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal the achievement of mastery.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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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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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
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