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

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Portland
Indiana
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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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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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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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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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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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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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My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
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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 politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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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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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
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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've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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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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