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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Writer
Portland
Indiana
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I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
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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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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
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The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.
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Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale it's for engineers trying to solve a problem it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
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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 never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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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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