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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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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
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Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.
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Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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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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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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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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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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