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In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Dreams
Turn
Everybody
Turns
Dream
Anything
Upside
Transform

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In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
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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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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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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 think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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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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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.
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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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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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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
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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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