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A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Life
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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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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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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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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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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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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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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.
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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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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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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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I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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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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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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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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