Twyla Tharp Quotes - Page 8

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• Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

  Twyla Tharp

  Soul, Comedy, Emotion

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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 mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

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  Art, Mean, Thinking

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

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• The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

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  Education, Littles, Made

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

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• With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.

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  Mother, Children, Pieces

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

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• Our guys have a vision of something bigger.

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  Guy, Vision, Bigger

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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.

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  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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• In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

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  World, Desperate, Clock

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• The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

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  Fundamentals, Granted, Great Ones

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

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• In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

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  Order, Creative, Know How

  "The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life". Book by Twyla Tharp, October 7, 2003.

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• Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Facts

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

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• My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.

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  Taken, Artist, Two

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

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• There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?

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  Art, People, Special

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• if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

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  Art, Want, Belief

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

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• The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

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  Art, Disrespect, Culture

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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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• 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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• Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.

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  Memories, Ancient, Wells

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

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• That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.

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  Action, Impulse, Improvising

  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 understand things that are American, for better or worse.

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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...

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  Moving, Men, Roles

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

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

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

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  School, Choices, Valedictorians

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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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