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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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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
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Portland
Indiana
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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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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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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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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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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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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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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Art is an investigation.
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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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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 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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