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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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Feds
Machine
Machines
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Dance

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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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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’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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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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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.
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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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You double your intensity with skill.
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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
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