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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.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
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Portland
Indiana
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
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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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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.
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Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
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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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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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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 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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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.
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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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