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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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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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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
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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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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
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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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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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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
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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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Art is an investigation.
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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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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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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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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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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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