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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
Always
Galaxy
Star
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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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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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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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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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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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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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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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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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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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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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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
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When creativity has become your habit when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal the achievement of mastery.
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