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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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Memory
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Perceiving
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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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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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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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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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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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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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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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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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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 have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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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 think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.
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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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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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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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