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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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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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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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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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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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While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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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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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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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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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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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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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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You double your intensity with skill.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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