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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
Galaxy
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Seen
Stars
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Always

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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.
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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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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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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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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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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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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.
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Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale it's for engineers trying to solve a problem it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
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I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.
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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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Art is an investigation.
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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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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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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