Twyla Tharp Quotes - Page 3

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• Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

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  Happiness, Creativity, Entrepreneur

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

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  Creativity, Self, Solitude

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

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  Creative, Together, Faith And Love

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• Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

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  Judgment

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• When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.

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  Order, People, Special

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• In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

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  Dream, Upside Down, Turns

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• Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.

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  Passion, Use, Littles

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

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  Creativity, Nuts, Innovation

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• I do everything I know how in a dance.

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  Dance, Dancing, Know How

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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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  Doubt, Comfort, Routine

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

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  Dance, Dancing, Splits

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• I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

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  Stars, Wanted, Galaxy

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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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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  Eye, Skills, Ideas

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Passion, Creativity, Desire

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

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  Art, Metaphor

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

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  Kissing, Preparation, Harness

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

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  Memories, Inspiration, Way

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Inspirational, Dance, Believe

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• I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

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  Dance, Challenges, Culture

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

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  Dance, Art, Stepchild

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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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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  Dance, Machines, Way

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

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  Issues, Feelings, Needs

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• A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

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  Dance, Wall, Thinking

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

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  Mother, Creativity, Creative

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• It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish. No one is born with that skill. It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time. . . . If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

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  Art, Sunset, Exercise

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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