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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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Scheduling
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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 think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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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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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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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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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
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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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