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You double your intensity with skill.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Skill
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Intensity

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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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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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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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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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Art is an investigation.
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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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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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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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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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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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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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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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