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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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Brooks
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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
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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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We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
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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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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
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My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
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Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
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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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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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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
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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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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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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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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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