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You double your intensity with skill.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Double
Intensity
Skill
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Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
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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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You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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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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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
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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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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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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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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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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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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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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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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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