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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Mood
Discipline
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This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.
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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 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 ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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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 always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.
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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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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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Art is an investigation.
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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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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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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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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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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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