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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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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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Portland
Indiana
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Art is an investigation.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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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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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
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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 always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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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 do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
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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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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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