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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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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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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
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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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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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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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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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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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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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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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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
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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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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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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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My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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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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