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Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Bounty
Curse
Blessing
Limits
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Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
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I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
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Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.
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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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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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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
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The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.
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This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.
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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.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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