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• It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

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  Wise, Commitment, College

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• My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.

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  Education, Mother, Simple

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

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• There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

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  Stupid, Silly, Mean

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• Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

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  Father, Piano, Four

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

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• In the end all collaborations are love stories.

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  Collaboration, Stories, Love Story

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• I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.

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  Mirrors, White, Dancer

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

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• I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

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  Architecture, Wells, Feels

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• I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

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  Thinking, Complicated Relationship, Complicated

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• I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

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  Running, Records, Spine

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• I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Structure

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• Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I’ve found the answer in the simple file box.

  Twyla Tharp

  Simple, Perfect, Answers

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• I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

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  Attention, Inattention, Survived

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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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  Greatness, Missions, Choreographers

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

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• A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to a lot more, which he imposes on his staff. If his people miss the stretch numbers but exceed the realistic goals, he's happy. If he's a superb manager, he knows how far they can stretch without breaking.

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  Leadership, Numbers, Goal

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

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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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  Ballet, Way, Needs

  "Tharp's New Tale, Woven In Dance" by Gia Kourlas, www.nytimes.com. February 03, 2012.

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• Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

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  Blessing, Secret, Limits

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

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• This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.

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  Fun, Moving, Knowing

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

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• There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

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  Lying, Action, Can Do

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• I write. I have read a great deal. I enjoy books. I like the wit of languages. Even French I like. I like to be able to think in different modes. I like to be able to use the language a great deal and carry on rehearsals in French.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.

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  Skills, Retiring, Pursue

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• Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks, in fact are.

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  Earth, Likes, Faces

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

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• Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

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  Dancer, Modern, Should

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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 began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...

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  Mother, Children, Years

  "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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