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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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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.
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As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
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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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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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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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Our guys have a vision of something bigger.
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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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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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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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Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
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This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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Concentrate: you can't have it all.
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
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Art is an investigation.
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You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.
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