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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Seen
Stars
Wanted
Always
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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I do everything I know how in a dance.
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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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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
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Art is an investigation.
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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.
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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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I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
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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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Perfect practice makes perfect.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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