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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.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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Indiana
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As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
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I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.
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Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks, in fact are.
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I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.
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Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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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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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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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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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
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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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To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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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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