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Perfect practice makes perfect.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Perfect
Makes
Practice

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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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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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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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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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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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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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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
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In creative endeavors luck is a skill.
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Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
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