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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
Upside
Transform
Dreams
Turn
Everybody
Turns
Dream
Anything

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There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.
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Perfect practice makes perfect.
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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
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When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
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There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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