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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.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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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 have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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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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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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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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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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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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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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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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I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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