Twyla Tharp Short Quotes

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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing.

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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself.

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

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

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You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box.

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To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

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Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

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You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

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Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

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Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.

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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother named me Twyla.

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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

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

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

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Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

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When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

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

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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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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.

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When the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

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I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.

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Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

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