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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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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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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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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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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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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.
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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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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
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