"Usually kids who are talented have the brashness……" — Twyla Tharp
"Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come."
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180 Quotes by Twyla Tharp
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- Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
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- The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy…
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- The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And…
- Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw…
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- It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are…
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