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When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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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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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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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 only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?
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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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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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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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Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.
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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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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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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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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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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 think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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