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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

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Dance Dedication Greatness Inspirational Passion

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance Heart Measurement
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Beautiful Challenge Communication Dance Greatness Inevitable
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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Death Live Ourselves Past People Time
The world I’m interested in is the one where things are not named.
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Interest Name Oneself World
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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Business People Thinking World Yourself
Misery is a communicable disease.
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Communication Misery Sick
I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.
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Art Hope Myself Thinking Threat
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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Call Imagination Magic Movement Myself Space
If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
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Communication Depression Face Feeling Misery Sick
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Body Celebration Dance Magic Miracle Small Yourself
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
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Body Dance Listening Movement Myself Necessary Pay Terrible
It’s not my job to look beautiful. It’s my job to look interesting.
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Beautiful Interest Job Myself
You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Dance Inspirational Style Yourself
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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Ambition Enough Fact Fulfill Lost Necessary World Yourself
I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Believe Day Future Myself Past Time
Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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Bone Dance Day Hard People Start Work Yourself
Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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Country Dance Exception Freedom Mindset Modern Woman
I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
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Believe Discipline God Principle Technique Thinking Word
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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Art Body Creature Dance Instrument Yourself
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
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Choice Dance Life People Yourself
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
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Dance Dedication Holy Inspirational One Liner Passion Place Stand
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Life One Liner Respect Tree
Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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Growth Inspirational Remember Stand Wings
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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Believe Direction Motivational Open Willing Work Yourself
Censorship is the height of vanity.
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Censor One Liner
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Art Breathe End One Liner
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Adversity Fire Gold Man Test

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