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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.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Portland
Indiana
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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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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Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.
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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
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You double your intensity with skill.
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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've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
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It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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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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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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In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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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'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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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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