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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Portland
Indiana
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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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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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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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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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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
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Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.
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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
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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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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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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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