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Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
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Portland
Indiana
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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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It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.
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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 valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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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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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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Perfect practice makes perfect.
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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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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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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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Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.
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I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.
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What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.
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I do everything I know how in a dance.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
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