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You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Kidding
Craft
Crafts
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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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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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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To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
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When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
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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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I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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