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Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Dance
Art
Stepchild
Arts

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Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.
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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
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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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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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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
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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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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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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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The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.
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