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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

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 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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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 had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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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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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
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You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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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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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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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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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 had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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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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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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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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