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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.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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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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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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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
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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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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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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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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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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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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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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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