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Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Without
Leaving
Running
Away
Art
Home
Ever

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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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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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Art is an investigation.
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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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when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.
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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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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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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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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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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 had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
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The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale it's for engineers trying to solve a problem it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
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