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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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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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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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Concentrate: you can't have it all.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
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I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
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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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Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
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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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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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