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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Prepare
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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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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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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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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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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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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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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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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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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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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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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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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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