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In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Endeavors
Endeavor
Skill
Luck
Skills
Creative

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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
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I understand things that are American, for better or worse.
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion
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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
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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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What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.
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One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.
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To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.
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I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...
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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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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 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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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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A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
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