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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Indiana
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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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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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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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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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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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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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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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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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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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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 think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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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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