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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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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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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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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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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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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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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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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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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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