Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
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The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels – a leaf feels, a storm feels – what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it’s a cultivated speech.
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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