Twyla Tharp Quotes - Page 8

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• The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

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  Children, Mean, Dedication

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• In the end all collaborations are love stories.

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  Collaboration, Stories, Love Story

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

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  Reader, My Time, Known

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Soul, Comedy, Emotion

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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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• 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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• I understand things that are American, for better or worse.

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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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• 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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