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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale it's for engineers trying to solve a problem it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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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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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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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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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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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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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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