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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
Good
Combine
Idea
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Littles
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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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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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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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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 think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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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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I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
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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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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.
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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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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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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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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
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I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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