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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.

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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Certain
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Life
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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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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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
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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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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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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
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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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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.
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