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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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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
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Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
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I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
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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 was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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When creativity has become your habit when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal the achievement of mastery.
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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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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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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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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
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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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Creativity is an act of defiance.
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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 double your intensity with skill.
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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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