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I understand things that are American, for better or worse.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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American
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I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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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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Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.
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The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.
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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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What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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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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I do everything I know how in a dance.
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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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