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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
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Portland
Indiana
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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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'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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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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You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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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'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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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 have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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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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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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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
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