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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
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Stars
Wanted
Always
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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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When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
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No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
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I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.
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I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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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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I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.
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There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.
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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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In creative endeavors luck is a skill.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
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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've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
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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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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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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.
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