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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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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 do everything I know how in a dance.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
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Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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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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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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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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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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When creativity has become your habit when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal the achievement of mastery.
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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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When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.
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