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You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.
I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.
I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.
To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.
I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.
Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.
Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.
There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.
I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.
There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.
I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.
Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.
There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.
Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
These days, I think we could all agree that having a just-friend is not a bad thing.
Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.
I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.
Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.