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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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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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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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Art is an investigation.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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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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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 formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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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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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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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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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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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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You double your intensity with skill.
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Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
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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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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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