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Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Writer
Portland
Indiana
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I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.
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To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.
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Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.
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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 had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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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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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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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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I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
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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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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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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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Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.
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Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
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