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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Lifeblood
Metaphor
Art

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Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks, in fact are.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
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When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
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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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But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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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 feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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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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No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
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