Twyla Tharp Quotes - Page 6

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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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  Running, Ideas, Lasts

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• Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.

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  Creativity, Power, Anchors

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

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• Perfect practice makes perfect.

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  Practice, Perfect, Practice Makes Perfect

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• Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

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  Writing, Creativity, Order

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• Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.

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  Later In Life, Issues, Interesting

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• One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.

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  Art, Differences, Quality

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

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• Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Gone

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• Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

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  Athlete, Men, Males

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

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• I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

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  Girl, Dark, Thinking

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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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  Children, Years, Dancing

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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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  Emotional, Breathing Space, Enough

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• I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

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  Tyrants, Vision, Tyranny

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

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• In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

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  Skills, Creative, Luck

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

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• I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

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  Music, Heart, Thinking

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

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• I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.

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  Motivational, Dance, Real

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

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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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  Mother, War, Teaching

  "A Conversation With Choreographer Twyla Tharp". Interview with Daviv Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

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  Directors, Wonderful, Brooks

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

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• I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

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  Impact, Years, Fit

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• Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

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  Discipline, Habit, Daily Routines

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

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• I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.

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  Believe, Dancing, Movement

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

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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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  Jobs, Space, Identity

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

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• You double your intensity with skill.

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  Skills, Intensity

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

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• I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.

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  Wall, College, Years

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

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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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  Decision, Parent, Age

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

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• I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.

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  Believe, Responsibility, Artist

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