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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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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Guts
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Modern
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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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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 never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
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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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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
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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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Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.
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Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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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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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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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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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks, in fact are.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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