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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
Twyla Tharp
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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 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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I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
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Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.
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I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...
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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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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
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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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It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.
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In creative endeavors luck is a skill.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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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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In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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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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