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Concentrate: you can't have it all.
Twyla Tharp
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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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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
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When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
Twyla Tharp
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
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Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.
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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
Twyla Tharp
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
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It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
Twyla Tharp
Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.
Twyla Tharp
Perfect practice makes perfect.
Twyla Tharp
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.
Twyla Tharp
I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
Twyla Tharp
I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
Twyla Tharp