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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.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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Memory
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Perceiving
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Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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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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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little 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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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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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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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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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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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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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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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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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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