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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Portland
Indiana
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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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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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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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 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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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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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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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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