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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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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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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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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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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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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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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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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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Art is an investigation.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
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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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You double your intensity with skill.
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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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