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To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Enhance
Ambiguity
Tolerance
Luck
Embrace

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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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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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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'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 have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
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Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.
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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.
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The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
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You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
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You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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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 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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Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.
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Perfect practice makes perfect.
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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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Art is an investigation.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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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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