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No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Born
Repetition
Inspirational
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Reflection
Skills
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Painstaking
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Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.
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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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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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I understand things that are American, for better or worse.
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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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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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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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Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.
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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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The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.
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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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When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
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Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.
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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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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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