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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
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I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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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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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
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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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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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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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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
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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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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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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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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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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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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.
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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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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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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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