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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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Indiana
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.
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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.
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But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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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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To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.
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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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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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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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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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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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