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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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In the end all collaborations are love stories.
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I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
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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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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 was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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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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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.
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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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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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