Twyla Tharp Quotes - Page 7

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• Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. 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. Without the time and effort invested in getting ready to create, you can be hit by a thunderbolt and it'll just leave you stunned.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Creativity, Effort

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

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• Our guys have a vision of something bigger.

  Twyla Tharp

  Guy, Vision, Bigger

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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.

  Twyla Tharp

  Earth, Likes, Faces

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

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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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• 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.

  Twyla Tharp

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

  Twyla Tharp

  School, Choices, Valedictorians

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• I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dancer, Becoming, Enough

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

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• I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...

  Twyla Tharp

  Moving, Men, Roles

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The 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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• 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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• 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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• I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

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  Architecture, Wells, Feels

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

  Twyla Tharp

  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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• The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dancing, Different, Rewards

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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.

  Twyla Tharp

  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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• 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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• 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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  Thinking, Gears, Done

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

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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.

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  Simple, Perfect, Answers

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• In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

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  Strong Women, Dancer, Males

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• In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

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  People, Inspired, Academic

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

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  Attention, Inattention, Survived

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• I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

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  Piano, Dancing, Training

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