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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

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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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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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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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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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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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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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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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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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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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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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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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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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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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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